List of Agency Decision Makers, Designated Managers and Nominated Officers |
See also Delegation of Authority to Foster Carers and Residential Workers Procedure.
NOTE
Consent to life-ending withdrawal of medical support for a child will require an application to the High Court even if all relevant parties are in agreement. Legal advice must be sought as a matter of urgency.
AMENDMENT
These details were updated in December 2023.
Contents
- Agency Decision Maker (Adoption)
- Agency Decision Make (Fostering)
- Adoption Panel Appointments
- Adoption Support
- Care Plans
- Care Proceedings
- Change of Name
- Contact with Parents
- Death or Serious Injury to a Child
- Decision to Look After
- Emergency Protection Orders
- Emigration
- Exemptions and Extensions from Fostering Limit
- External Placements
- Fostering Panel Appointments
- Leaving Care
- Notifications
- Passports
- Placement Orders
- Private Fostering
- Secure Accommodation
- Special Guardianship
- Special Guardianship Support
- Nominated Officer (Ceasing to look after a child under 16 years old)
- Nominated Officer (Ceasing to look after a child 16 or 17 years old)
- Nominated Officer (Disruption of Education)
- Nominated Officer (Fostering for Adoption)
- Nominated Officer (Out of Area Placements)
- Nominated Officer (Immediate Placement of a Looked After Child with Connected Person)
- 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: Assistant Director Family Help and High Needs or Director of Family Help and High Needs |
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: Assistant Director Family Help and High Needs or Director of Family Help and High Needs |
Designated Manager (Adoption Panel Appointments) The manager who can authorise appointments to the Central List of Adoption Panel members. |
Post title: Head of 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. |
Post title: Head of Adoption |
Designated Manager (Care Plans) The manager who can authorise the final Care Plan to be taken before the Court within Care Proceedings. |
Post title: Heads of Social Work |
Designated Manager (Care Proceedings) The manager who can authorise the initiating of Care Proceedings. |
Post title: Assistant Director Family Help and High Needs |
Designated Manager (Change of Name) The manager who can authorise the change of name of a Looked After Child,
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Post title: Heads of Social Work |
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). |
Post title: Heads of Social Work |
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: Children’s Services Leadership Team; Head of Independent Statutory Services and Practice; Corporate Communications |
Designated Manager (Decision to Look After) The manager who can authorise a child becoming Looked After. |
Post title: Assistant Director Family Help and High Needs |
Designated Manager (Emergency Protection Orders) The manager who can authorise an application for an Emergency Protection Order. |
Post title: Assistant Director Family Help and High Needs |
Designated Manager (Emigration) The manager who can authorise the placement of a Looked after child outside England and Wales. |
Post title: Director of Family Help and High Needs |
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. |
Post title: Assistant Director Family Help and High Needs |
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: Assistant Director Family Help and High Needs |
| The manager who can authorise appointments to the Central List of Fostering Panel members | Post title: Head of Fostering |
Designated Manager (Leaving Care) The manager who can approve a Pathway Plan. |
Post title: Team Managers |
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. |
Post title: QA Looked After Children Hub Manager |
Designated Manager (Passports) The manager who can authorise a passport application for a Looked After child. |
Post title: Team Manager |
Designated Manager (Placement Orders) The manager who can authorise an application for a Placement Order. |
Post title: Assistant Director Family Help and High Needs |
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. |
Post title: Team Manager/Head of Fostering |
Designated Manager (Secure Accommodation) The manager who can authorise:
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Post title:
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Designated Manager (Special Guardianship) The manager who can authorise Special Guardianship as the permanence plan for a Looked After child. |
Post title: Head of Social Work |
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. |
Post title: Head of Social Work if no additional financial provision Assistant Director Family Help and High Needs if additional financial provision |
| Nominated Officer (Ceasing to look after a child under 16 years old) | Post title: Assistant Director Family Help and High Needs |
| Nominated Officer (Ceasing to look after a child 16 or 17 years old) | Post title: Assistant Director Family Help and High Needs |
| The manager who can authorise the change of placement affecting a Looked After child in Key Stage 4. | Post title: Head of Social Work consulting with the Head of the Virtual School |
| Nominated Officer (Fostering for Adoption) The person who can authorise Fostering for Adoption. |
Post title: Assistant Director Family Help and High Needs |
| The manager who can authorise the placement of a Looked After child outside the area of the local authority. | Post title: Assistant Director Family Help and High Needs |
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. |
Post title: Assistant Director Family Help and High Needs |
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. |
Post title: Assistant Director Family Help and High Needs |
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