Child Protection Plans

Child Protection Plans are the key way to ensure that children who are identified as being at risk of significant harm are kept safe. They also serve to assist and measure change that takes place within a family, ensuring that the family and all agencies are working towards the same outcome for the child.

The conference will draw up an Outline Plan, which it is then the responsibility of the Core Group to develop into a Child Protection Plan and monitor until the next conference. The flow chart icon to the right will link you a page that shows the process of developing and monitoring the plan for Social Workers (the greyed out section refers to Children In Need Plans which are discussed elsewhere).

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No.	Action	Person responsible	Timescale
1.	Section 35 enquiries completed and agreement that conference required. If conference not required, child in need plan to be considered	Social worker and Unit Manager (first line social work manager)	Within 10 working days of strategy discussion
2.	If conference not required, child in need plan to be considered	Social worker	Within 7 working days of decision not to take to conference
3.	Draft plan drawn up based on outcome of s35 enquiries and entered into report to conference	Social worker	4 working days prior to conference
4.	Section 35 report and draft plan passed to manager for countersigning	Social worker	3 working days prior to conference
5.	Report to be shared with parents / those with parental responsibility and child where appropriate	Social worker	2 working days prior to conference
6.	Report to be sent to conference chair	Social worker	1 working day prior to conference
7.	Conference reviews plan and uses draft to formulate outline child protection plan	Chair of conference and conference members	At conference
8.	If necessary plan taken to resource panel for approval	Social worker	*Timescale required*
9.	First core group held and draws up child protection plan	Social worker and core group members	Within 10 working days of conference
10.	Visits to child completed	Social worker	Within timescale specified within child protection plan
11.	Further core groups held	Social worker	Within timescale specified within child protection plan
12.	Actions 10 & 11 repeated along with any other work required until review conference	Social worker
13.	Child protection plan updated for conference and included in review report	Social worker and Unit Manager (first line social work manager)	5 working days prior to conference
14.	Actions 8 to 12 repeated along with any other work required until a review conference makes decision that the child protection plan is no longer required
15.	Once child protection plan no longer required, child in need plan should be drawn up	Social worker	Within 7 working days of conference where child protection plans bought to an end

Child Protection Plans

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