How do I appeal against a child protection plan?
Contact your social worker/keyworker/his or her line manager if you wish to make an appeal. If you are still unhappy write to the chairperson of the appeals panel, outlining the grounds for the appeal. You have 28 days from the receipt of their letter from the conference chair in which to lodge an appeal.
Can you challenge a child protection plan?
Grounds for Appeal Against a Conference Decision
That the criteria for the decision that the child should continue to have a Child Protection Plan were not met; That the criteria for the decision that the Child Protection Plan should be discontinued were not met; and/or.
Can child protection be refused?
If a child or young person who has the capacity to consent refuses a child protection examination, you should discuss with them their views and concerns about the examination or what might happen afterwards. … You do not need to be certain that the child or young person is at risk of significant harm to take this step.
What happens if a child protection plan is breached?
It should also outline what the Local Authority will do to support parents. … If it is breached then it can be used as evidence in Court that parents are not working honestly with professionals and/or not making the necessary changes to provide adequate care for or safeguard their children.
Social work professionals are also setting up fake social media accounts to spy on parents and children. … The Law allows government investigators including social workers to view a citizen’s social media accounts once, but thereafter requires the actor to get permission for repeat viewing or continued surveillance.
What is a Section 47 in child protection?
A Section 47 enquiry means that CSC must carry out an investigation when they have ‘reasonable cause to suspect that a child who lives, or is found, in their area is suffering, or is likely to suffer, significant harm’1. … The aim is to decide whether any action should be taken to safeguard the child.
Why would a child protection plan stop?
The child protection plan ends when one of the following happens: the local council decides your child is no longer suffering or at risk of significant harm.
Is a child protection plan compulsory?
A child in need plan is voluntary for families and gives children failing to thrive extra services, beyond what every child receives, to help them develop safely. A child in need plan operates under section 17 of The Children Act 1989 and doesn’t have statutory framework for the timescales of the intervention.
What should you avoid if a child makes a disclosure?
Don’t:
- promise confidentiality.
- ask leading or probing questions.
- investigate.
- repeatedly question or ask the girl to repeat the disclosure.
- discuss the disclosure with people who do not need to know.
- delay in reporting the disclosure to the Safeguarding team.
Common reasons social services would take a child into temporary or permanent care include:
- Emotional abuse.
- Physical abuse.
- Sexual abuse.
- Neglect.
- Medical neglect.
- Abandonment.
- If the parents have been incarcerated.
- Serious illness or death of parents.
When a child is on a child protection plan?
If your child is made the subject of a child protection plan, it means that the network of agencies considers your child to be at risk of significant harm in one or more of the following four categories: physical abuse. sexual abuse. emotional abuse.
You have every right to refuse any social service people admission to your home. They would have to go away and get police assistance + court order (they would have to provide enough evidence to a judge it was an emergency, that your kids were at risk).