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AMENDMENT
The hyperlinks in this document were revised in September 2017.
Practice Guidance
Current Practice Guidance Notes
The Social Work Manual is updated every 6 months. Sometimes changes need to be introduced, within that period. Practice Guidance Notes (PGN) contain these changes and are circulated to all staff from the Directorate's Office. At each update the content of the PGN is incorporated into the Social Work Manual, and the PGN Moved to the PGN Archive at the end of this page. Click the link below for the Current Practice Guidance Notes.
- Information for Professionals –Forced Marriage Unit
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/when-things-go-wrong/forced-marriage/info-for-professionals
Benefits, Housing, Legal Update
See also, Statutory Guidance in Government Papers section re: Adoption, Friends and Families, Young Runaways, Targeted Support Services for Young People.
- Please click link for access to leaflets from HCC Money Advice: Financial assistance with Fostering and Adoption. Social Fund Changes. Financial assistance with disabled children.
http://www.hertsdirect.org/services/advben/bnftsadvc/bacpdf/ - HCC Money Advice: Benefits for Young People
http://www.hertsdirect.org/services/advben/bnftsadvc/benguide/youngpeople - HCC Money Advice: Financial assistance with housing costs
http://www.hertsdirect.org/docs/pdf/h/hcosts - [National Website] Child Benefits HM Revenue and Customs
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/childbenefit/ - [National Website] Disability Benefits Enquiry Line
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/DG_10011165 - [National Website] Who to contact about disability and carers benefits
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/FinancialSupport/Introductiontofinancialsupport/DG_065148 - [National Website] Housing and Local Services Information
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/YoungPeople/Housing/index.htm - [National Website] Housing Citizens Advice Bureau issues relating to housing rights/law
http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/housing_e.htm
Direct Work with Children and Young People - Virtual Library
- Link to the Virtual Library, which contains a collection of information and guidance that is aimed at supporting practitioners and managers in their ongoing role in working with children and young people
Virtual Library - Direct Work with Children and Young People
- {National Website} Special Education Needs and Disability (SEND)
SEND Guides - Short Breaks Care - How Local Authorities Should Provide It (March 2011)
http://www.education.gov.uk/childrenandyoungpeople/send/a0075231/short-breaks - Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) Various practice resources supporting children, young people and parents with disabilities.
http://www.scie.org.uk/topic/people/childrenyoungpeople/disabledchildrenyoungpeople - {National Website} Help if You have a Disabled Child
https://www.gov.uk/help-for-disabled-child
- A refuge for young people at risk . This explains how provision may be made for children over 14 years to be placed for up to 14 days without becoming looked after , if the provider is appropriately registered.
http://media.education.gov.uk/assets/files/pdf/r/registering%20as%20a%20refuge%20for%20young%20people%20at%20risk.pdf
- Children and Families across borders (CFAB) – services (previously International Social Services ISS)
http://www.cfab.org.uk/professionals/cfab-services/
Residential Care, Fostering and Adoption
- This short study provides an insight into the nature of children’s residential homes, the characteristics and circumstances of the young people who live in them and on the short-term outcomes for these young people living in children's residential homes
https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/standard/publicationDetail/Page1/DFE-RR201 - These pages provide information that may be helpful to providers of services, local authorities and other people who work with children, young people, families and foster carers
http://www.education.gov.uk/childrenandyoungpeople/families/fostercare/b0071246/infoforcarers - Statutory guidance on adoption
http://www.education.gov.uk/childrenandyoungpeople/families/adoption/g0072314/guidance - Hertfordshire County Council's Foster Carers’ handbook
https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/services/childrens-social-care/fostering-and-adoption/fostering/training-support-and-policies.aspx - Residential child care settings – Therapeutic approaches to Social Work in Social Care Institute for Excellence May 2012 , evaluates different approaches in children’s homes and secure units
http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/reports/report58/ - ARi - Belonging and Permanence - Outcomes in long-term foster care and adoption
Ari - Belonging and Permanence - ARi - An interview with Professor Nina Biehal re. Belonging and Permanence: Outcomes in long-term foster care and adoption
Ari - Interview with Professor Nina Biehal
Research and Good Practice Bulletins
- The bulletins are a series of briefings with the findings from individual complaint investigations, management and serious case reviews of children in Hertfordshire
Research and Good Practice Bulletins
Practice Guidance Notes Archive
- Archived Practice Guidance Notes
Archived Practice Guidance Notes
Good Practice Hub/ What's New and PGNs
For examples of good practice and recent PGNs that will be added to the procedures manual in future updates, please see the Staff Access Library
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