Secure Units

This section provides the procedures for staff working in SC & YP secure units.

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Personal Care Plan
Each child or young person cared for within Children's Services residential home has plans that are agreed and worked towards by all relevant parties.
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Review - Risk Assessment Update
All children and young people at Children's Services residential homes will have a risk assessment undertaken with them, their parents/social worker, and prior to them being admitted. This risk assessments will consider activities and behaviour and internal/external risk factors.
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Discharge from the Secure Unit
This policy describes the processes to be used when discharging young people from the Secure Unit. This policy and includes principles of care when discharging, process to follow and who to inform.
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Health Care
This policy describes the processes to be used in maintaining the health care of young people admitted to the Secure Unit and includes general principles, health care during placement, health promotion and records.
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Young People's Protection and Safeguarding
The safeguarding and welfare of young people and young people is everyone's responsibility whether they work directly or indirectly with young people in the care of the Health and Social Services Department
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Complaints
A complaints system enables the organisation to ensure the service provided is positive, responsive and open. This is achieved by prompt responses to complaints and effective monitoring to enable change.
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Bullying
It is expected that carers will promote an atmosphere in the home where bullying is not accepted or tolerated.
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Unauthorised Absence from the Secure Unit
The safety of young people of primary importance. Their safety may be at risk by their absence from the unit therefore staff must take all reasonable steps to ensure young people are found and returned to the unit as quickly as possible.
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Behaviour Management (Secure Accommodation)
Within secure accommodation circumstances may arise where behaviour needs to be managed to protect young people and staff. Whilst it is recognised that the first level of intervention must be verbal further intervention in the form of sanctions and or restraint may be necessary to ensure safety. Records will be kept of each intervention to ensure the rights and safety of young people and staff.
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Room Searches
Room searches may be a necessary part of the care of young people within the Secure Unit to ensure their continued safety and that of others. Such searches will be undertaken whilst protecting the dignity of and showing respect to the young person,
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Staff Relationships with Young People
The unit believes that the basis of good practice is rooted in the relationships developed between the adults and young people and that adults should be pro-active at displaying their own trustworthiness and reliability in order that young people develop such traits.
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Staff Supervision (Secure Accommodation)
Staff working in secure accommodation will be appropriately supervised to enable the safeguarding of young people and promotion of their welfare.
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Fire Precautions, Health and Safety
On every occasion that the Secure Unit is activated each member of staff and any young people accommodated will be given an induction into procedures to follow in the event of fire.
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Forms
This page provides links to the forms used within the secure environment.
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