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One minute guides
Children’s Services is a broad, varied and complex area of work and it can be difficult to make sense of the support available and know who does what.
We have developed a library of ‘one minute guides’ that aim to provide straight-forward information about the different work we do and who is involved. The guides are for everyone to use and we’re regularly adding to them with new topics and information.
Best practice
- Appreciative inquiry
- Multi-agency concerns resolution process
- Outcomes focused practice
- Publicly available data
- Safer recruitment
- Supervision
- Think family, work family
- Voice and influence
- Voice and influence opportunities
- Workforce development
Early help and targeted services
- Arts, music and culture for children
- Baby Steps
- Bail and remand protocol
- Cluster working
- Early help
- Early start
- Family group conference (FGC) service
- Family Hubs and the Early Help front door team
- Gambling and young people
- Kinship care
- Lifelong links
- Multi-systemic therapy
- PACT programme
- Relationship matters - reducing parental conflict
- Start in Leeds
- Support Care
- Youth Justice Service
- Leeds Children’s Out of Court Disposal Panel
Education
- Bullying
- Children missing education
- Children missing out on education
- Education attendance – statutory responsibilities
- Education safeguarding team
- Educational psychology
- Elective home education
- Personal Education Plans and the Pupil Premium Plus
- September Guarantee
- School admissions
- Supporting pupils at school with medical conditions
- The Virtual School in Leeds
Equality and diversity
- GRT Outreach and Inclusion Team
- Cultural cohesion quality mark
- Equality impact assessment
- Working with lesbian and gay young people
- Working with bi young people
- Working with trans young people
- Young carers
Leeds ways of working
- Child Friendly Leeds
- Children’s transport team
- Executive Member for Children's Services
- Leeds practice model
- Rethink formulation
- Restorative conflict resolution and restorative conferences
- Restorative practice
Looked after children and care leavers
- Contact or family time
- Foster carer reviews
- Fostering service
- Independent reviewing officer (IRO)
- Independent visitors
- Mockingbird family model
- Reunification
- Section 20 Children Act 1989
Multi agency working
- Designated and named professionals in health
- Forward Leeds
- Health economy in Leeds
- Leeds Safeguarding Children Partnership (LSCP)
- MindMate
- Police powers of protection
- Probation Service
- SUDIC - Sudden Unexpected Death in Childhood
National legislation, guidance and inspection
- Area SEND inspections - 2023 onwards
- Area SEND thematic visits
- Children and Families Act
- Care Act
- Domestic homicide reviews
- Growing up neglected - Joint Targeted Area Inspection report on neglect
- Joint Targeted Area Inspections - Children who are victims of domestic abuse
- Ofsted inspection framework
- Prevent, Protect and Repair - report on domestic abuse JTAI inspections
- Serious child safeguarding incidents and reviews
- Serious Crime Act - protection of children
- Third sector
- Time to Listen - Joint Targeted Area Inspection report on CSE
- Working together to safeguard children
Safeguarding and social work
- Child and family assessment
- Child criminal exploitation
- Child protection conference
- Child protection conference chair
- Child sex offenders disclosure scheme
- Child sexual abuse in the family environment
- Child sexual exploitation
- Child trafficking
- Children in employment and entertainment
- Children’s Emergency Duty Team
- Coercive control offence
- Domestic violence and abuse
- Domestic violence disclosure scheme
- Domestic violence and abuse - school notifications
- Domestic violence in young people’s relationships
- Duty and advice team
- Family drug and alcohol court
- Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
- Front door safeguarding hub
- Honour based abuse
- Leeds domestic violence service
- Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO)
- MACE framework
- Neglect
- Police welfare checks
- Preparation for Initial Child Protection Conferences
- Private fostering
- Harmful sexual behaviour
- Professional curiosity
- Public law outline
- Radicalisation and preventing extremism
- Return Interview Service
- Safe Project
- Safeguarding deaf children
- Therapeutic Social Work Team
SEND
- Child health and disability service
- Deaf and Hearing Impairment Team (DAHIT)
- Education Health and Care Plans (EHCPs)
- Everyone's included Leeds SEND and Inclusion strategy
- Fostering for children with disabilities
- Leeds Local Offer
- Personal budgets
- Portage
- SENDIASS - Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information Advice Support Service
- SENIT - Special Educational Needs and Inclusion Team
- SENSAP - Special Educational Needs Statutory Assessment and Provision team
- Short breaks and fun activities
- Short Breaks Fostering for children with disabilities
If you notice anything on a one minute guide that you think is incorrect or out of date, email csimprovement@leeds.gov.uk to let us know.
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