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MASH
This section assumes that you are concerned enough about a child to want to make enquiries about additional support to enable them to achieve or maintain a reasonable standard of development.
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Child protection
Knowledge of child protection is key when undertaking work with children and families. The very nature of the work we undertake means that there are always concerns present, however it is essential to know what to do when these concerns escalate. It is recommended that you check back regularly as new guidance will be reflected in these pages.
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Children living away from home
Children live away from home for a variety of reasons and the responsibility for this rests with different people. Where children are living away from home but not with immediate family members, or where children need to be moved from their family home due to abuse, this section sets out how we decide the legal status of a child, what assessments are undertaken and the right support provided if necessary.
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Children with Disabilities
The Committee for Health & Social Services, Children and Family Community Services, will assess and provide appropriate support to children with disabilities and their parents/carers
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Youth Offending
This section covers the work undertaken by the Youth Justice Service and considers the various aspects of the service that they provide from initial support at time of arrest through to working with young people post sentence.
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Emergency Duty Service
A social work service is available 24 hours a day 7 days a week. This page sets out the provision of the service outside of office hours.
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Serious Case Reviews
Serious Case Reviews are reviews undertaken when a child has been seriously harmed or killed and there is concern about how agencies have worked together. They look at the involvement of agencies with a child and their family to determine whether there are any lessons to be learned. This page describes the process of Serious Case Reviews as set out in Working Together 2013.
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Key policies
This page has links to all the organisation's policies and procedures, such as confidentiality & data protection, partnership working with families and agencies and so on.
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Pathways
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Legal
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