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2024

September 2024

Children and Young People’s Continuing Care National Framework

This chapter was added to the manual in September 2024.

Unaccompanied Migrant Children and Child Victims of Trafficking and Modern Slavery

In September 2024, a link was added in Section 4, Age Assessment to BASW Age Assessment Practice Guidance. In Further Information, a link was added to Operation Innerste Process: Caseworker Guidance.

Child Protection Enquiries (Section 47)

This chapter was updated in September 2024.

Children's Services Policies, Values and Principles

In September 2024, this chapter was revised in line with Working Together to Safeguard Children.

Death of or Serious Injury to a Child (Child in Care, Child in Need or Care Leaver Up to and Including the Age of 24)

In September 2024, this chapter was updated in line with Working Together to Safeguard Children. New Section 3, Death of a Care Leaver Up to and Including the Age of 24 was added. 

Children and Young People Aged 0-25 with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

In September, Section 15, Resolving Disagreements was updated to include information on Guidance: Carry Out an Order in Special Educational Needs Cases.

Care and Supervision Proceedings and the Public Law Outline

In September 2024, information was added in relation to family group decision-making in Section 1, Introduction and Time Limits and Section 5, Pre-Proceedings, and a link was added to chapter Family Networks and Family Group Decision Making.

Kinship Care (formerly family and friends)

This chapter was updated in September 2024, to reflect Championing Kinship Care: The National Kinship Care strategy.

Applications for Special Guardianship Orders

This chapter was updated in September 2024. Information was added into Section 17, Special Guardian Duty on the Death of the Child, that the relevant local authority should be notified if the child was previously a looked after child.

Notifications of Significant Events

In September 2024, this chapter was updated in line with Working Together to Safeguard Children, to note that notifications should also be made of the death of a care leaver up to and including the age of 24. 

Supporting the Education and Promoting the Achievement of Children with a Social Worker, Looked After and Previously Looked After Children

In September 2024, this chapter was revised in response to Working Together to Safeguard Children (December 2023), and includes the ongoing development of the strategic leadership roles of Virtual School Heads (VSH) in promoting educational outcomes for children aged 0 to 18 who have, or previously had a social worker, and children in kinship care arrangements.

Young Carers

This chapter was refreshed in September 2024.

Staying Put

This chapter was updated in September 2024, to note that if a young person in a Staying Put arrangement dies up to and including the age of 24, notifications should be made in accordance with the procedure on Death or Serious Injury to a Child (Looked After, Child in Need or Care Leaver Up to and Including the Age of 24).

Family Networks and Family Group Decision Making

This chapter was added in September 2024.

Placements with Connected Persons

This chapter was refreshed in September 2024. .

Placements in Secure Accommodation on Welfare Grounds

In September 2024, Section 10, Use of Inherent Jurisdiction to Authorise a Placement Involving a Deprivation of Liberty was updated throughout in line with Revised Practice Guidance on the Court's Approach to Unregistered Placements (October 2023) and Revised National Listing Protocol for Applications that Seek Deprivation of Liberty Orders Relating to Children under the Inherent Jurisdiction.