Social care - Children's Services policies and procedures

• Care management
• Young carers
• Children in care
• Comments and complaints
• Families
• Fostering and adoption
• Information sharing
• Mental capacity
• Mental health
• Money
• Parent carers
• Safeguarding children (child protection)
• Sensory impairment 
• Youth offending

On this page you can find policies and procedures relating to our social care services for children and families.

If you have any questions about any of the documents, please contact us.

Email: socialcare@westsussex.gov.uk

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Care management

• Care management policy and guidance: children and families 2008 
  (PDF, 70 pages, 531KB)

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Young carers

• Young carers assessment and planning procedures 2010 (PDF, 14 pages, 283KB)

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Children in care

• Financial guidance for care leavers 2010 (PDF, 29 pages, 181KB) 
• Independent reviewing service policy 2011 (PDF, 19 pages, 137KB)
• Leaving care procedure (PDF, 21 pages, 132KB)
• Looked after children and overnight stays (PDF, 9 pages, 93KB)
• Missing children procedure 2010 (PDF, 34 pages, 205KB)
  
• Permanence Handbook 2012 (PDF, 26 pages, 173KB)
• Positive handling policy 2008 (PDF, 40 pages, 135KB) 
• Regulation 33 visits: guidance and procedures 2010 (PDF, 12 pages, 100KB)
• Secure accommodation procedures 2008 (PDF, 7 pages, 32KB)
• Specialist family support (providers services) procedures 2011 
  (PDF, 16 pages, 292KB)
• Statement of purpose: Beechfield 2010 (PDF, 12 pages, 96KB)
• Statement of purpose: Cissbury Lodge 2010 (PDF, 7 pages, 81KB)
• Statement of purpose: High Trees 2009 (PDF, 6 pages, 92KB)
• Statement of purpose: May House 2012 (PDF, 8 pages, 98KB)
• Statement of purpose: Orchard House 2011 (PDF, 7 pages, 98KB)
• Statement of purpose: Seaside 2010 (PDF, 9 pages, 91KB)
• Statement of purpose: Teasel Close 2010 (PDF, 6 pages, 85KB)
• Transitions protocol for West Sussex 2012 (PDF, 23 pages, 166KB)

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Comments and complaints

To make a comment on or to complain about children's social care please see our Complaints about children's social care page.

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Families

• Family and Friends Care Policy 2012 (PDF, 21 pages, 182KB)
• Family group conferences and meetings 2008 (PDF, 18 pages, 135KB)

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Fostering and adoption

• Adoption placement order guidance 2010 (PDF, 5 pages, 86KB)
• Adoption services handbook 2010 (PDF, 187 pages, 556KB)
• Anti-bullying procedures for foster care 2011 (PDF, 19 pages, 163KB)
• Foster care service allegations management guidance 2010
  (PDF, 27 pages, 174KB) 
• Foster carers handbook 2009 (PDF, 279 pages, 840KB)
• Fostering Service statement of purpose 2011 (PDF, 8 pages, 64KB)
• Parent and Child Foster Care Placements 2012 (PDF, 36 pages, 172KB)
  
• Private fostering 2010 (PDF, 35 pages, 187KB) 
• Residence Order Allowance Scheme 2010 (PDF, 13 pages, 100KB)
• Special guardianship financial support 2010 (PDF, 8 pages, 91KB)
• Statement of purpose: adoption 2010 (PDF, 14 pages, 104KB)

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Information sharing

• Warning information policy 2012 (PDF, 24 pages, 111KB)
• Children's Trust sharing information guidance 2008 (link to other web page)
• Children's Trust sharing information: formal protocol 2005 (PDF, 9 pages, 49KB)  
• Management monitoring and professional oversight (PDF, 27 pages, 195KB)
• Recording with care guidance (PDF, 14 pages, 112KB) 
  
   

Mental capacity

• MCA quick reference guide 2012 (PDF, 2 pages, 155KB)
• Sussex IMCA and care reviews policy 2010 (PDF, 6 pages, 64KB)

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Mental health

• Accessing the AMHP service during working hours for MHA 1983 assessments 2011 (PDF, 9 pages, 114KB)
• MHA 1983 AMHP appointment panel guidance and procedures 2011 
  (PDF, 17 pages, 82KB) 
• MHA 1983 section 6 conveyance: Sussex procedures (PDF, 20 pages, 99KB)
• MHA 1983 sections 135 and 136: Sussex policy and procedures 
  (PDF, 27 pages, 181KB)  
• MHA 1983 section 117 policy and guidance 2010 (PDF, 18 pages, 88KB)

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Money

• Policy for reimbursement of expenses incurred by people who use services and carers 2009 (PDF, 7 pages, 29KB)

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Parent carers

• Carer's assessment, carers' services guidance and procedures policy 2009 
  (PDF, 16 pages, 72KB)

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Safeguarding children (child protection)

• Protocol for children at risk of trafficking (PDF, 14 pages, 120KB)
• Children's complex case panel guidance 2010 (PDF, 7 pages, 90KB)
• Deregistration procedure for Local Safeguarding Children Board 2008 
  (PDF, 4 pages, 78KB) 
• Joint protocol for the assessment of housing and support needs of homeless 16-17 year olds (PDF, 28 pages, 112KB)
• Joint Sussex protocol to reduce prosecution of looked after children 2011
  (PDF, 29 pages, 186KB)
• Placement with parents procedures 2010 (PDF, 15 pages, 128KB)
• Pan-Sussex Child Protection and Safeguarding Procedures 2011 (link to other web page)
• Working with parents or carers experiencing mental ill health where there are concerns about their child(ren) - good practice guide and proforma
  (Word, 20 pages, 191KB) 

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Sensory impairment

• Children with sensory needs procedures 2011 (PDF, 5 pages, 80KB)

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Youth offending

• Young offenders presenting a potential risk to children procedures 2011
   (PDF, 23 pages, 159KB)
• West Sussex Youth Offending Service/Children's Services social care team protocol 2011 (PDF, 40 pages, 214KB) 

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