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LeicestershireChildren and Family Service Procedures Manual

6.2 List of Agency Decision Makers, Designated Managers and Nominated Officers

AMENDMENT

In September 2023, this chapter was updated.

Contents

  1. Agency Decision Maker (Adoption)
  2. Agency Decision Make (Fostering)
  3. Adoption Panel Appointments
  4. Adoption Support
  5. Care Plans
  6. Care Proceedings
  7. Change of Name
  8. Contact with Parents
  9. Death or Serious Injury to a Child
  10. Decision to Look After
  11. Emergency Protection Orders
  12. Emigration
  13. Exemptions and Extensions from Fostering Limit
  14. External Placements
  15. Fostering Panel Appointments
  16. Leaving Care
  17. Marriage
  18. Notifications
  19. Passports
  20. Placement Orders
  21. Private Fostering
  22. Secure Accommodation
  23. Special Guardianship
  24. Special Guardianship Support
  25. Nominated Officer (Disruption of Education)
  26. Nominated Officer (Fostering for Adoption)
  27. Nominated Officer (Out of Area Placements)
  28. Nominated Officer (Immediate Placement of a Looked After Child with Connected Person)
  29. Nominated Officer (Placement of a Looked After Child subject to Care Order or Interim Care Order with Parents)
Designated Managers with Specified Area of Responsibility Post Title and Contact Details

Agency Decision Maker (Adoption)

The Agency Decision Maker who makes decisions on all adoption matters (some of which will be made on the basis of a recommendation of the Adoption Panel).

Post title: Agency Decision Maker/s

Contact details: Emma Bulgin
(Emma.Bulgin@leics.gov.uk)

Kay Fletcher - Head of Service
(kay.fletcher@leics.gov.uk)

Sharon Cooke - Assistant Director
(Sharon.Cooke@leics.gov.uk)

Agency Decision Maker (Fostering)

The Agency Decision Maker who makes decisions on fostering matters (on the basis of recommendations of the Fostering Panel).

Post title: Agency Decision Maker/s

Contact details: Emma Bulgin
(Emma.Bulgin@leics.gov.uk)

Kay Fletcher - Head of Service
(kay.fletcher@leics.gov.uk)

Sharon Cooke - Assistant Director
(Sharon.Cooke@leics.gov.uk)

Designated Manager (Adoption Panel Appointments)

The manager who can authorise appointments to the Central List of Adoption Panel members.

Please contact:
Service Manager for Fostering and Adoption

Designated Manager (Adoption Support)

The manager who can authorise the level of adoption support to be provided to children, adopters (including financial support) and their family or birth family members.

Please contact:
Service Manager for Fostering and Adoption

Designated Manager (Care Plans)

The manager who can authorise the final Care Plan to be taken before the Court within Care Proceedings.

Please contact:
Service Manager for Fostering and Adoption

Designated Manager (Care Proceedings)

The manager who can authorise the initiating of Care Proceedings.

Please contact:
Service Manager for Fostering and Adoption

Designated Manager (Change of Name)

The manager who can authorise the change of name of a Looked After Child.

Please contact:
Head of Service

Designated Manager (Contact with Parents)

The manager who can authorise the suspension or termination of contact between a Looked After child and his or her parents (subject to the Court's approval after 7 days for children on Emergency Protection Orders, Interim Care Orders or Care Orders).

Please contact:
Head of Service

Designated Manager (Death or Serious Injury to a Child)

The senior manager who should be notified in the event of death or serious injury to a child.

Post title: Assistant Director

Please email:Sharon.Cooke@leics.gov.uk

Designated Manager (Decision to Look After)

The manager who can authorise a child becoming Looked After.

Please contact:
Head of Service

Designated Manager (Emergency Protection Orders)

The manager who can authorise an application for an Emergency Protection Order.

Please contact:
Head of Service

Designated Manager (Emigration)

The manager who can authorise the placement of a Looked after child outside England and Wales.

Post title: Director Children's Services

Please email:jane.moore@leics.gov.uk

Designated Manager (Exemptions and Extensions from Fostering Limit)

The manager who can authorise any exemptions from the usual fostering limit for foster carers living in the local authority area.

Please contact:
Service Manager for Fostering and Adoption

Designated Manager (External Placements)

The manager who can authorise placements of Looked After children with external providers of residential care or foster carers from an independent fostering agency.

Post title: Director Children's Services

Please email:jane.moore@leics.gov.uk

Designated Manager (Fostering Panel Appointments)

The manager who can authorise appointments to the Central List of Fostering Panel members

Please contact:
Service Manager for Fostering and Adoption

Designated Manager (Leaving Care)

The manager who can approve a Pathway Plan.

Please contact:
The relevant Team Manager

Designated Manager (Marriage)

The manager who can authorise the marriage of a Looked After child.

Please contact:
Head of Service

Designated Manager (Notifications)

Where a Looked After Child from another local authority has been placed in the area, the manager to whom the notification should be sent.

For contact details please see: Children and Families Moving Across Local Authority Boundaries (Leicester City, Leicestershire and Rutland Local Safeguarding Children Partnerships Procedures Manual)

Designated Manager (Passports)

The manager who can authorise a passport application for a Looked After child.

Please contact:
The relevant Team Manager

Designated Manager (Placement Orders)

The manager who can authorise an application for a Placement Order.

Please contact:
The relevant Service Manager

Designated Manager (Private Fostering)

The manager who can approve assessments of private foster carers, impose requirements on private foster carers or decide to prohibit someone from acting as a private foster carer.

Please contact:
The relevant Service Manager

Designated Manager (Secure Accommodation)

The manager who can authorise:

A placement of a Looked After child in secure accommodation for up to 72 hours without a Secure Accommodation Order; and/or

An application for a Secure Accommodation Order; and/or

A child's continued secure placement on the recommendation of the Secure Accommodation Review Panel; and/or

Applications to renewal Secure Accommodation Orders on the recommendation of the Secure Accommodation Review Panel.

Post title: Assistant Director

Please email:Sharon.Cooke@leics.gov.uk

Designated Manager (Special Guardianship)

The manager who can authorise Special Guardianship as the permanence plan for a Looked After child.

Post title: Assistant Director

Please email:Sharon.Cooke@leics.gov.uk

Designated Manager (Special Guardianship Support)

The manager who can authorise the level of special guardianship support to be provided, including financial support to special guardians.

Please contact:
Service Manager for Fostering and Adoption

Nominated Officer (Disruption of Education)

The manager who can authorise the change of placement affecting a Looked After child in Key Stage 4.

Post title: Assistant Director

Please email:Sharon.Cooke@leics.gov.uk

Nominated Officer (Fostering for Adoption)

The person who can authorise Fostering for Adoption.

Please contact:
Service Manager for Fostering and Adoption

Nominated Officer (Out of Area Placements)

The manager who can authorise the placement of a Looked After child outside the area of the local authority.

Post title: Director Children's Services

Please email: jane.moore@leics.gov.uk

Nominated Officer (Immediate Placement of a Looked After Child with Connected Person)

The manager who can authorise the placement of a Looked After child with a family or friend ('Connected Person') who is not already approved as a foster carer.

Please contact:
Head of Service

Nominated Officer (Placement of a Looked After Child subject to Care Order or Interim Care Order with Parents)

The manager who can authorise the placement of a Looked After child with a parent, person with Parental Responsibility or person who held a Residence Order/Child Arrangements Order specifying with whom the child was to reside immediately before the Care Order.

Please contact:
Head of Service