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7.2 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

This chapter was updated in June 2022.


Contents

  1. Agency Decision Maker (Adoption)
  2. Agency Decision Maker (Fostering Annual Reviews presented to Quality Assurance Panel)
  3. Designated Manager (Adoption Panel Appointments)
  4. Designated Manager (Adoption Support)
  5. Designated Manager (Care Plans)
  6. Designated Manager (Care Proceedings)
  7. Designated Manager (Change of Name)
  8. Designated Manager (Contact with Parents)
  9. Designated Manager (Emergency Protection Orders)
  10. Designated Manager (Emigration)
  11. Designated Manager (Exemptions and Extensions from Fostering Limit)
  12. Designated Manager (External Placements)
  13. Designated Manager (Fostering Panel Appointments)
  14. Designated Manager (Leaving Care)
  15. Designated Manager (Notifications)
  16. Designated Manager (Passports)
  17. Designated Manager (Placement Orders)
  18. Designated Manager (Secure Accommodation)
  19. Designated Manager (Special Guardianship)
  20. Designated Manager (Special Guardianship Support)
  21. Nominated Officer (Disruption of Education)
  22. Nominated Officer (Placements in Residential Care)
  23. Nominated Officer (Out of Area Placements)
  24. Nominated Officer (Immediate Placement of a Looked After Child with Connected Person)
  25. Nominated Officer (Placement of a Looked After Child subject to Care Order or Interim Care Order with Parents)
  26. Nominated Officer (Placements in Foster Care Regulation 24 & 25 of the 2010 Care Planning, Placement and Review Regulations)
  27. Fostering Annual Reviews

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: Formally delegated to:
Interim Joint Director of Operations - Stockport Family and Principal Social Worker (Rebecca Key)

Deputy Principal Lead (Social Care and Commissioning) (Jeanette Warburton)

Contact details:
3rd Floor
Stopford House
Stockport
SK1 3XE
0161-475-6789

Agency Decision Maker
(Fostering Annual Reviews presented to Quality Assurance Panel)

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

Post title: Formally delegated to:
Interim Joint Director of Operations – Stockport Family and Principle Social Worker (Rebecca Key) 0161-475-6789

Deputy:
Fostering Service Leader Vaunda Taylor

Contact details:
3rd Floor Stopford House
Piccadilly
Stockport
SK1 3XE
0161-474-2719

 Designated Manager
(Adoption Panel Appointments)

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

Post title:
Gail Spray Regional Adoption Manager

Contact details:
Etrop Court,
25 Rowlandsway,
Wythenshawe,
Manchester M22 5RG
0161 600 8532

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:
Gail Spray Regional Adoption Manager

Contact details:
Etrop Court,
25 Rowlandsway,
Wythenshawe,
Manchester M22 5RG
0161 600 8532

Designated Manager
(Care Plans)

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

Post title:
Service Leaders (Children’s Social Care)

Catherine Fleming
Stephen Dawson
Vicky McLeod
Leanne Baines
Vicky Sattler
Philip Wilkinson
Katie Cooper

Contact details:
3rd Floor Stopford House
Piccadilly
Stockport
SK1 3XE
0161-475-6700

 Designated Manager
(Care Proceedings)

The manager who can authorise the initiating of Care Proceedings.

Post title:
Service Leaders Children's Social Care

Catherine Fleming
Stephen Dawson
Vicky McLeod
Leanne Baines
Vicky Sattler
Philip Wilkinson
Katie Cooper

Contact details:
3rd Floor Stopford House
Piccadilly
Stockport
SK1 3XE
0161-475-6700

Designated Manager
(Change of Name)

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

Post title:
Rebecca Key Interim Joint Director of Operations – Stockport Family

Contact details:
3rd Floor Stopford House
Piccadilly
Stockport
SK1 3XE
0161-475-6789

Designated Manager
(Contact with Parents)

The manager who can authorise the suspension 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:
Service Leaders Children’s Social Care

Catherine Fleming
Stephen Dawson
Vicky McLeod
Leanne Baines
Vicky Sattler
Philip Wilkinson
Katie Cooper

Contact details:
3rd Floor Stopford House
Piccadilly
Stockport
SK1 3XE
0161-475-6700

Designated Manager
(Emergency Protection Orders)

The manager who can authorise an application for an emergency Protection Order

Post title:  
Service Leaders Children’s Social Care

Catherine Fleming
Stephen Dawson
Vicky McLeod
Leanne Baines
Vicky Sattler
Philip Wilkinson
Katie Cooper

Contact details:
3rd Floor Stopford House
Piccadilly
Stockport
SK1 3XE
0161-475-6700

Designated Manager
(Emigration)

The manager who can authorise the placement of a Looked After Child outside England and Wales.

Post title:
Director of Children’s Services
Chris McLoughlin

Contact details:
Upper Ground Floor
Stopford House
Stockport
SK1 3XE
0161-474-4624

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:  
Principal Lead (Social Care and Commissioning) (Jeanette Warburton)

Deputy:
Service Lead - Fostering (Vaunda Taylor)

Contact details:
Central House,
Grand Central,
Stockport,
SK1 3TA
0161-475-6843

 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:  
Principal Social Care and Commissioning
Jeanette Warburton

Delegated Deputy:
In emergencies and OOH
Service Leads Children’s Social Care

Catherine Fleming
Stephen Dawson
Vicky McLeod
Leanne Baines
Vicky Sattler
Philip Wilkinson
Katie Cooper

Contact details:
Central House,
Grand Central,
Stockport,
SK1 3TA
0161-475-6843

Designated Manager
(Fostering Panel Appointments)

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

Post title:
Service Lead Fostering (Vaunda Taylor)

Contact details:
3rd Floor Stopford House
Piccadilly
Stockport
SK1 3XE
0161-474-2719

Designated Manager
(Leaving Care)

The manager who can approve a Pathway Plan.

Post title:  
Leaving Care Team Leader
Pauline Plaiter

Contact details:
Central House
Grand Central,
Stockport,
SK1 3TA
0161-475-6790

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:  
For attention of
Director of Operations Stockport Family

Contact details:
3rd Floor Stopford House
Piccadilly
Stockport
SK1 3XE
0161-475-6789

 

Designated Manager
(Passports)

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

Post title:  
Director of Operations Stockport Family

Delegated to:
Jeanette Warburton Principal Lead Children’s Social Care

Contact details:
Central House,
Grand Central,
Stockport,
SK1 3TA
0161-475-6843

Designated Manager
(Placement Orders)

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

Post title:  
Service Leaders Children’s Social Care

Contact details:
3rd Floor Stopford House
Piccadilly
Stockport
SK1 3XE
0161-475-6700

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:  
Director of Children's Services - Chris McLoughlin Delegated to Director of Operations Stockport Family

Contact details:
3rd Floor Stopford House
Piccadilly
Stockport
SK1 3XE
0161-475-6789

Designated Manager
(Special Guardianship)

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

Post title:  
Service Leaders Children’s Social Care (Any financial support to be approved by Principal Lead (Social Care and Commissioning) (Jeanette Warburton)

Contact details:
3rd Floor Stopford House
Piccadilly
Stockport
SK1 3XE
0161-475-6700

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:  
Service Leaders Children’s Social Care

Contact details:
3rd Floor Stopford House
Piccadilly
Stockport
SK1 3XE
0161-475-6700

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:  
Interim Joint Director of Operations – Stockport Family (Rebecca Key)

Contact details:
3rd Floor Stopford House
Piccadilly
Stockport
SK1 3XE
0161-475-6789

Nominated Officer
(Placements in Residential Care)

The manager who can approve placements in residential children’s homes.

Post title:  
Director of Operations Stockport Family

Delegated Deputy:
Principal Lead Children’s Social Care

Contact details:
Central House,
Grand Central,
Stockport,
SK1 3TA
0161-475-6789

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 of Children’s Services

Delegated Responsibility to:
Director of Operations Stockport Family

Contact details:
3rd Floor Stopford House
Piccadilly
Stockport
SK1 3XE
0161-475-6789

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:  
Interim Joint Director of Operations – Stockport Family (Rebecca Key)

Deputy - Principal Lead for Social Care and Commissioning, Jeanette Warburton

Contact details:
3rd Floor Stopford House
Piccadilly
Stockport
SK1 3XE
0161-475-6789

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 Child Arrangements Order immediately before the Care Order.

Post title:  
Service Leaders Children’s Social Care

Contact details:
3rd Floor Stopford House
Piccadilly
Stockport
SK1 3XE
0161-475-6700

Nominated Officer
(Placements in Foster Care Regulation 24 & 25 of the 2010 Care Planning, Placement and Review Regulations)

Post title:  
Director of Operations Stockport Family

Deputy: Principal Lead (Social Care and Commissioning) (Jeanette Warburton)

Contact details:
3rd Floor Stopford House
Piccadilly
Stockport
SK1 3XE
0161-475-6789

Fostering Annual Reviews

 

 

Post title:
Fostering Service Leader Vaunda Taylor

Contact details:
3rd Floor Stopford House
Piccadilly
Stockport
SK1 3XE
0161-474-2719

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