hantsweb

Children's Services

23/09 Family placement staff manual

This manual is currently being updated. If the link you require is not yet live, please refer to 14/04 Fostering Handbook  2mb until these pages have been updated.

The purpose of the Family Placement Staff Manual is to provide a reference manual for all social care staff in Children's Services Department. It covers all information social workers and other child care staff need to have about Hampshire County Council's Fostering Service, about placing a child who needs to live away from home and about meeting that child's needs in foster, or other forms of family based, care. The manual is intended to ensure that all staff working within family placement, or with children living away from home and placed in family based care, are aware of, understand, and work within regulations, standards, policies, procedures and good practice guidelines.

• Chapters 1-5

  • 1. Hampshire County Council’s Fostering Service
  • 2. Recruitment of County Foster Carers
  • 3. Assessment of prospective County Foster Carers
  • 4. Family Link
  • 5. Family and Friends Foster Carers
  
  

  Chapters 6-10

  • 6. Fostering Panels
  • 7. Kinship Care
  • 8. Supervision, Support and Review of approved fostering households
  • 9. Placing children who need to live away from home
  • 10. Health of children looked after
  
  

• Chapters 11-15

  • 11. Education of children looked after
  • 12. Caring for the child in family placement
  • 13. Reviews for a child looked after
  • 14. Permanence
  • 15. Placement endings and disruptions
  
  

  Chapters 16-20

  • 16. Young people looked after 16+
  • 17. Emergency community childminding
  • 18. Private Fostering
  • 19. Residence Orders
  • 20. Special Guardianship Orders
  
  

Chapters 1-5

• • 1.1 Hampshire Fostering Service Statement of Purpose  1008kb
  
  March 2009
  
• • 1.2 Philosophy and Practice  53kb
  
  November 2009
  
• • 1.3 National Minimum Standards and Regulations  33kb
  
  November 2009
  

• Return to top

  
  
  
  

• • 2.1 Recruitment strategy and marketing  32kb
  
  October 2009
  
• • 2.2 Management of initial enquires to foster
  
  
  
• • 2.3 Preparation training for prospective carers
  
  
  
• • 2.4 Family Link recruitment
  
  
  
• • 2.5 Hampshire County Council employees as prospective foster carers  38kb
  
  September 2009
  

• Return to top

  
  
  
  

• • 3.1 Checks and references
  • Positive Criminal Records Bureau checks guidance  32kb
  • Positive Criminal Records Bureau checks process  34kb
  
  
  
• • 3.2 BAAF Form F Assessment
  
  
  
• • 3.3 Protocol for movement of carers between Fostering Agencies
    • Supporting document
      • The Fostering Network Transfer of Carers: Protocol April 2004  209kb
  
  
  
• • 3.4 Safer caring strategy
  
  
  
• • 3.5 Health and Safety assessment
  
  
  
• • 3.6 Carer Profile
  
  
  
• • 3.7 Handover protocol to District Team following carer approval
  
  
  

• Return to top

  
  
  
  

• • 4.1 Family Link Scheme – introduction  33kb
  
  November 2009
  
• • 4.2 Recruitment and assessment of Family Link carers  30kb
  
  November 2009
  
• • 4.3 Placing a child with a Family Link carer  182kb
  
  November 2009
  
• • 4.4 Family Link Child Profile form  84kb
  
  February 2011
  
• • 4.5 Family Link Medical Information Treatment form  326kb
  
  February 2011
  

• Return to top

  
  
  
  

• • 5.1 Placing a child under Regulation 24
    • Supporting documents
      • Assessment Tool - Temporary Approval of Connected Person and Immediate Placement of Child under reg. 24 as from 01/04/2011
  
  May 2011
  
• • 5.2 Family and Friends foster carers - practice issues - assessment, supervision and support  32kb
  
  November 2009
  
• • 5.3 Viability Assessment (Family and Friends)  35kb
  
  November 2009
  

• Return to top

  
  
  
  

Chapters 1-5   Chapters 6-10   Chapters 11-15   Chapters 16-20

In this section…

send us your feedback

help a-z contacts full site © 2013