Updated: February 2024 This leaflet summarises how employers should deal with allegations made against an employee or volunteer working with children and young people in Somerset.
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Updated: February 2024 This leaflet summarises how Foster Carers can deal with allegations against people who work with children and young people in Somerset….
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Updated: February 2024 This leaflet summarises how we deal with allegations against people who work with children and young people in Somerset.
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Guidance on ‘Who has Parental Responsibility’ Author: Dr Nadya James (nadya.james@nhs.net): Consultant Community Paediatrician, Designated Doctor, MA for Adoption, EMCYPSAS, Nottingham Children’s Hospital.
Somerset’s Graduated Response Tool sets out the barriers to learning that children and young people may have and the strategies and provisions that could be in place to support them. Somerset’s Graduated Response Tool has been created to support all users to understand the Graduated Response to Special Educational Needs in the context of current
Back up plans can also be referred to as Contingency Plans. It is a plan that is agreed with the child, family and partner agencies should a crisis occur.
Structure chart outlining partnership governance – reporting relationships and decision-making. Version: February 2025
Multi-Agency Step Up, Step Down Protocol Read More »
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Updated March 2023
Resolving Professional Differences Protocol Read More »
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Whenever there is reasonable cause to suspect that a child is suffering or is likely to suffer significant harm there should be a strategy discussion involving local authority children’s social care (including the residential or fostering service, if the child is looked-after), the police, health and other involved agencies such as the referring agency.
