Glossary Index

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• 39 Essex Chambers
• ABC Chart or Record
• Absconded
• Absent
• Absent without Authority
• Absent without Consent
• Abuse
• Acceptable Behaviour Contract
• Accommodated
• Achieving Best Evidence (ABE)
• Acid Test (DoLS)
• Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)
• Action Plan Order
• Acute Care
• Acute Services
• Adopted Children Register
• Adoption Contact Register
• Adoption Case Record
• Adoption Order
• Adoption Placement Plan
• Adoption Placement Report
• Adult at Risk
• Adoption Register
• Adoption Review
• Adoption Support Plan
• Adoption Support Services Adviser
• Adult Social Care
• Advance Statement
• Advocacy
• Advocate
• Age Assessment
• Age Discrimination
• Agency Decision Maker
• Anti-Social Behaviour Injunctions
• Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO)
• Appeal Rights Exhausted (ARX)
• Applicant
• Appointee
• Appointeeship
• Appropriate Adult
• Appropriate Consent
• Appropriate Treatment
• Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP)
• Aspergers Syndrome
• Assessment
• Assessment and Progress Record
• Assessment Framework
• AssetPlus
• Assisted Voluntary Return Scheme
• Asylum Casework Information Database (ACID)
• Asylum Seeker
• Authorising Signatory (DoLS)
• Authority to Place for Adoption
• Autism
• Away from Placement without Authorisation
• Bail
• Bail Supervision and Support (BSS)
• Balance Sheet Approach (DoLS)
• Behaviour Management Plan
• Behaviour Support Plan
• Best Interests
• Best Interests Assessment (DoLS)
• Best Interests Assessor (DoLS)
• Best Interests Decision
• Bipolar Disorder
• Breach Action
• Brief Report
• British Institute for Learning Disabilities (BILD)
• Carer
• Care Order
• Care Plan
• Care Proceedings
• Caldicott Guardian
• Caldicott Principles
• Care Act 2014
• Care and Support Plan
• Care Co-ordination
• Care Council for Wales
• Care and Social Services Inspectorate for Wales (CSSIW)
• Care Standards Inspectorate for Wales (CSIW)
• Care Programme Approach
• Care Quality Commission (CQC)
• Carer's Assessment
• Case Law
• Case Manager
• Case Management Hearing
• Categories of Abuse or Neglect
• Central List
• Cheshire West (DoLS)
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
• Child Arrangements Orders
• Child Assessment Order
• Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE)
• Child Curfew Order
• Child in Need
• Child in Need Plan
• Child Protection
• Child Protection Conference
• Child Protection Enquiry
• Child Protection Plan
• Child Protection Register
• Child Protection Review Conference
• Child Safety Order
• Child Sexual Exploitation
• Child Trafficking Advocate
• Child Trust Fund
• Child's Permanence Report
• Child's Plan
• Childminder
• Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (CAFCASS)
• Children and Young People's Plan (CYPP)
• Children in Need
• Children's Centres
• Children's Commissioner
• Children's Fund
• Children's Guardian
• Children's Guide
• Children's Homes Regulations
• Children's Rights Director
• Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC)
• Chronology
• Clare's Law
• Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG)
• Clinical Psychiatrist
• Clinical Psychologist
• Closure Record
• Coercive Behaviour
• Common Assessment Framework (CAF)
• Common Core Skills and Knowledge
• Communication Passport
• Community Care Assessment
• Community Deprivation of Liberty
• Community Health Services
• Community Interest Company (CIC)
• Community Mental Health Nurse
• Community Psychiatric Nurse
• Community Punishment Order
• Community Sentences
• Community Treatment Order (CTO)
• Complaints Process
• Concern
• Concurrency Carers
• Conditions (DoLS)
• Conditional Discharge
• Connected Person
• Consent
• Contextual Safeguarding
• Contact Order
• Contingency Plan
• Controlled Activity
• Controlling Behaviour
• Coram Voice
• Core Assessment
• Core Group
• Corporate Parenting
• County Lines
• Court of Protection
• Court of Protection Rule 1.2
• Court Ordered Secure Remand (COSR)
• CPS Advanced Disclosure
• Criminal Behaviour Order
• Criteria for Child Protection Plans
• Cyberbullying
• Dangerousness
• Data Controller
• Data Subject
• DASH
• Decision-maker
• Department for Education
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Deportation Order
• Depression
• Deprivation of Liberty in the Community
• Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)
• Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Assessments(DoLS)
• Deputy
• Designated Country
• Designated Medical Officer
• Designated Officer
• Designated Professional
• Designated Senior Manager
• Designated Teacher
• Detention and Training Order
• Detention Placement Plan
• Direct Payment
• Director of Children’s Services
• Disabled Child
• Disbenefitted Case
• Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
• Disclosure and Barring Service Update Service
• Discretionary Leave to Remain
• Discriminatory Abuse
• Dispersal Scheme
• Disqualified Person (Adopter)
• Disqualified Person (Foster Carer)
• Disqualified Person (Staff or Volunteers)
• Domestic Abuse
• Domestic Abuse Protection Notice (DAPN)
• Domestic Abuse Protection Order (DAPO)
• Domestic Homicide Review
• Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme
• Domestic Violence Protection Order
• Domestic Violence Protection Notice
• Domicile
• Down's Syndrome
• Drug Testing Requirement
• Drug Treatment and Testing Order
• Drug Treatment Requirement
• Dublin III Regulation
• Duty of Candour
• Duty of Care
• Dysphagia
• Dysphasia
• Early Help
• Echolalia
• Education, Health and Care Needs Assessment (EHC Assessment)
• Education, Health and Care Plan (EHC Plan)
• Education Requirement
• Eligible Young People
• Eligibility (Carers)
• Eligible Outcomes
• Emergency Duty Team (EDT)
• Emergency Placement Planning Meeting
• Emergency Protection Order
• Emigration
• Emotional Abuse
• Epilepsy
• Equality Duty
• Escalation
• Essential Standards of Quality and Safety
• ETE
• European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR)
• Every Child Matters
• Exclusion Requirement
• Exploitation
• Extra-Familial Threats
• Fabricated or Induced Illness
• Failed Asylum Claim
• Failed to Travel
• Family Assistance Order
• Family Group Conference
• Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
• Female Genital Mutilation Protection Order (FGMPO)
• Forced Marriage
• Forced Marriage Protection Order (FMPO)
• Former Relevant Young People
• Fostering for Adoption
• Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and Their Families
• Fraser Competent
• Freeing Order
• Genogram
• Gillick Competent
• Guardianship Order
• Habitual Residence
• Harm
• Hate Crime
• Hazing
• Health Action Plan
• Health Assessment
• Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Health and Safety Executive
• Health and Wellbeing Board
• Health Care Plan
• Hidden Disability
• Hoarding
• HMCS
• Home Detention Curfew (HDC)
• Home Remedies
• Honour Based Violence
• Human Trafficking
• ICT Abuse
• Ill treatment
• Imprisonable Offence
• Imputability to the State (DoLS)
• In Loco Parentis
• In Need
• Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR)
• Independent Advocate
• Independent Domestic Violence Advisor (IDVA)
• Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA)
• Independent Mental Health Advocate (IMHA)
• Independent Person (Adoption)
• Independent Return Review
• Independent Review Mechanism
• Independent Reviewing Officer
• Independent Sector
• Independent Visitor
• Individual Education Plan
• Individual Learning Plan
• Individual Support Order (ISO)
• Informal Patient
• Informed Consent
• Inherent Jurisdiction
• Initial Assessment
• Initial Child Protection Conference
• Institutional Abuse
• Inter-Agency Placement
• Integrated Care System (ICS)
• Integrated Children’s System (ICS)
• Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme
• Intensive Supervision and Surveillance (ISS) Requirement
• Interim Care Order
• Intermediary
• Intermediary Service
• Interpreter
• Intoxicating Substance Treatment Requirement
• Invisible Disability
• Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
• Judicial Review
• Junior Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs)
• LAC
• Law Commission
• Lawfully Detained
• Learning Disability
• Learning Disability Mortality Review (LeDeR)
• Lead Member for Children’s Services
• Lead Professional
• Lead Social Worker
• Less Restrictive Option
• Likelihood of Reoffending
• Link Worker
• Litigation Friend
• Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO)
• Local Authority Residence Requirement
• Local Government & Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO)
• Local Offer
• Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB)
• Local Safeguarding Adults Board (LSAB)
• Looked After
• Looked After Child
• Looked After Review
• Maintained Schools
• Managing Authority (DoLS)
• Manic Depression
• Medical Adviser
• Medical Model of Disability
• Mental Capacity
• Mental Capacity Act 2005
• Mental Capacity Assessment
• Mental Health Act 1983
• Mental Health Act Managers
• Mental Health Assessor (DoLS)
• Mental Health Review Tribunal (MHRT)
• Mental Health Treatment Requirement
• Mental Illness
• Merton Compliant
• Missing
• Missing Child
• Missing from Care
• Mixed Household
• Mobility
• Modern Slavery
• Modern Slavery Act 2015
• Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA)
• Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC)
• Multi Sensory Impairment (MSI)
• Named Professional
• NASS
• National Gateway for Adoption
• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
• National Minimum Standards
• National Panel of Independent Experts on Serious Case Reviews
• National Referral Mechanism (NRM)
• National Standards for Youth Justice Services
• Nearest Relative
• Needs Assessment
• Neglect
• Next of Kin
• Nominated Officer
• Non-Designated Country
• Notifiable Diseases
• NSPCC
• Occupational Therapist
• Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED)
• Office of the Public Guardian
• Official Solicitor
• Onset
• Ordinary Residence
• Osman Warning
• Outcome-based Commissioning
• P
• PACE Beds
• Paid Relevant Person’s Representative (DoLS)
• Panel Adviser
• Parallel Plan
• Parental Consent to Adoptive Placement
• Parental Responsibility
• Parenting Order
• Part 8 Review
• Pastoral Support Plan
• Pathway Plan
• PENY
• Permanence Plan
• Personal Adviser
• Personal Budget
• Personal Care
• Personality Disorder
• Personal Education Plan (PEP)
• Person Posing a Risk to Children (PPRC)
• Physical Abuse
• Physical Intervention
• Physiotherapist
• Placing Authority
• Place of Safety
• Placement at a Distance
• Placement Information Record
• Placement Order
• Placement Plan
• Placement Plan Review
• Placement Plan/Placement Information Record
• Placement Planning Meeting
• Placements and Casework Service
• Police Protection
• Potentially Dangerous Person (MAPPA)
• Potential Victim of Trafficking (PVoT)
• Positive Duty (DoLS)
• Positive Risk Assessment
• Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD)
• Pre-Assessment Decision
• Pre-CAF
• Prescribed Relationship
• Pre-Sentence Reports
• Prevent Strategy
• Primary Care
• Primary Care Trust (PCT)
• Principal Social Worker - Children and Families
• Private Foster Carer
• Private Fostering
• Privately Fostered
• Private Sector
• Professional Standards
• Prohibited Steps Order
• Prospective Adopter Matching Plan
• Prospective Adopter Stage One Plan
• Prospective Adopter's Report
• Protected Characteristics
• Protected Party
• Protective Factors
• Psychological Abuse
• Psychosis
• Public Law Outline
• Pupil Referral Unit
• Qualifying Young People
• Radicalisation
• Recommendation (DoLS)
• Recovery Order
• Referral
• Referral and Information Record
• Referral Order
• Registered Provider
• Regulated Activity
• Regulation 24 Placement
• Regulation 38 Placement
• Regulation 39
• Regulation 43
• Regulatory Authority
• Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL)
• Relevant Person’s Representative (DoLS)
• Relevant Young People
• Relinquished Children
• Remand
• Remand to Local Authority Accommodation
• Remand to Youth Detention Accommodation
• Reparation Order
• Reporting Officer
• Residence Order
• Residence Requirement
• Respondant
• Responsible Individual
• Restraint
• Review Child Protection Conference
• Review Conference
• Risk Assessment
• Risk of Serious Harm to Others
• Risk of Sexual Harm Order
• Risk to Children Offender
• Risk To Children Outside The Home
• Rule 1.2 Court of Protection
• Safeguarding
• Safeguarding Adults
• Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB)
• Safeguarding Partners Arrangements
• Safeguarding and Promoting the Welfare of Children
• Sandwich Carer
• Scaled Approach
• Schedule One Offender
• Schizophrenia
• Screening Interview for Adolescents (SIFA)
• Screening Questionnaire Interview for Adolescents (SQIFA)
• Second Opinion Appointed Doctor (SOAD)
• Secondary Care
• Section 2 (Mental Health Act)
• Section 3 (Mental Health Act)
• Section 7 Report
• Section 8 Order
• Section 12 Doctor
• Section 17
• Section 20
• Section 21A Review (DoLS)
• Section 37 Report
• Section 39D IMCA (DoLS)
• Section 47 Enquiry
• Section 84 Application
• Secure Accommodation Order
• Secure Accommodation (Criteria) Review
• Secure Estate
• Secure Hospital
• Self Neglect
• Sensory Impairment
• Separated Children
• Serious Case Review
• Settled Status
• Severe, Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (SPMLD)
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexual Harm Prevention Orders
• Sexual Risk Orders
• Signatory (DoLS)
• Significant Harm
• Single Assessment
• Slavery and Trafficking Prevention Order (STPO)
• Slavery and Trafficking Risk Order (STRO)
• SMART
• Smuggling
• Social Circumstances Report
• Social Model of Disability
• Social Work England
• Social Worker
• Special Educational Needs
• Special Guardianship Order
• Specific Issues Order
• Specific Sentence Report
• Speech and Language Therapist (SALT)
• Stalking Protection Order
• Standard Authorisation (DoLS)
• Standards of Performance, Ethics and Conduct
• Stand Down or Day of Sentence Report
• Statement of Purpose
• Statement of Special Education Needs (SEN)
• Statutory Review
• Strategy Discussion
• Staying Put
• Subs Only
• Sufficiency Duty
• Supervisory Body (DoLS)
• Targeted Youth Support Service
• Team Around the Child
• Teenage Relationship Abuse
• Third Sector
• Threat to Life Warning (previously known as Osman warning)
• Threatening Behaviour
• Threshold Criteria
• Trafficking
• Trans
• Transitions
• Translator
• Trauma-informed Practice
• Triad of Impairment
• Twin Track Plan
• Unaccompanied Asylum Seeker
• Unauthorised Absence
• Universal Services
• Unpaid Work
• Upskirting
• Urgent Authorisation (DoLS)
• Veto
• Vetting and Barring Scheme
• Violent Offender Order
• Virtual School Head
• Voluntary Accommodation
• Voluntary Patient
• Voluntary Sector
• Vulnerability
• Welfare Checklist
• Whistleblowing
• Wilful Neglect
• Working Together to Safeguard Children
• Work with Children
• Witness Statement (Court of Protection)
• Young Adult
• Young Offender Institution (YOI)
• Young Runaway
• Youth Court
• Youth Court Bench Book
• Youth Detention Accommodation
• Youth Justice Board (YJB)
• Youth Justice Board Placements and Casework Service
• Youth Offending Service or Team
• Youth Rehabilitation Order