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Contents

  • How to use these procedures
  • Contact Details
  • Common Assessment Framework
  • Children in Need
  • Child Protection
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Managing allegations against staff
    • Introduction to Allegations Against Staff
    • Roles and responsibilities
    • Responding to allegations
    • Initial action by a senior manager
    • Allegations made to the police
    • Allegations made to children's social care
    • Initial consideration by LADO
    • Initial evaluation discussion
    • Reviewing Progress
    • Resignations and compromise agreements
    • Disciplinary Process or Assessment regarding suitability
    • Information sharing for disciplinary purposes
    • Record keeping
    • Monitoring progress
    • Action in respect of unsubstantiated allegations
    • Action in respect of false allegations
    • List 99
    • Working with children
    • Purpose of the initial evaluation
    • Flowchart
    • Team Brief for Allegations against Staff, Carers and Volunteers
    • Managing Allegations - Guidance for Chief Executives and Strategic and Operational Managers
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Private Fostering
  • Supplementary guidance
  • Useful Resources
  • Good Practice
  • Complaints Procedure
  • Investigating Complex (organised or multiple) Abuse

Procedure Flowcharts

  1. Referral to Children's Social Care
  2. Action following assessment
  3. Urgent action to safeguard children
  4. What happens after the strategy discussion?
  5. What happens after the child protection conference, including the review process?

Managing allegations against staff

  • Introduction to Allegations Against Staff
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Responding to allegations
  • Initial action by a senior manager
  • Allegations made to the police
  • Allegations made to children's social care
  • Initial consideration by LADO
  • Initial evaluation discussion
  • Reviewing Progress
  • Resignations and compromise agreements
  • Disciplinary Process or Assessment regarding suitability
  • Information sharing for disciplinary purposes
  • Record keeping
  • Monitoring progress
  • Action in respect of unsubstantiated allegations
  • Action in respect of false allegations
  • List 99
  • Working with children
  • Purpose of the initial evaluation
  • Flowchart
  • Team Brief for Allegations against Staff, Carers and Volunteers
  • Managing Allegations - Guidance for Chief Executives and Strategic and Operational Managers
‹ Youth offending team up Introduction to Allegations Against Staff ›

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