List of Agency Decision Makers, Designated Managers and Nominated Officers
See also: Delegation of Authority to Foster Carers and Residential Workers Procedure.
NOTE
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These details were updated in October 2023.Designated Managers with Specified Area of Responsibility
| 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 and Permanence Panel). |
Post title: Assistant Director Children's Social Care and Early Help Contact details: |
Agency Decision Maker (Fostering)The Agency Decision Maker who makes decisions on fostering matters (on the basis of recommendations of the Fostering and Permanence Panel). |
Post title: Assistant Director Children's Social Care and Early Help Contact details: |
Designated Manager (Adoption and Permanence Panel Appointments) |
Post title: Service Manager Corporate Parenting Contact details: |
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: Service Manager Corporate Parenting Contact details: |
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 Manager Corporate Parenting Service Manager Safeguarding Service Manager Children with Disabilities, Early Help and PYJS Contact details: Isabel.Prinsloo@wokingham.gov.uk |
Designated Manager (Care Proceedings)The manager who can authorise the initiating of Care Proceedings. |
Post title: Service Manager Corporate Parenting Service Manager Safeguarding Service Manager Children with Disabilities, Early Help and PYJS Contact details: Isabel.Prinsloo@wokingham.gov.uk |
Designated Manager (Change of Name)The manager who can authorise the Change of Name of a Child Looked After. |
Post title: Interim Director of Children's Services Contact details: |
Designated Manager (Contact with Parents)The manager who can authorise the suspension or termination of contact between a Child Looked After 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 Manager Corporate Parenting Service Manager Safeguarding Service Manager Children with Disabilities, Early Help and PYJS Contact details: Isabel.Prinsloo@wokingham.gov.uk |
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: Interim Director of Children's Services Contact details: 0118 974 6102 |
Designated Manager (Notification of Incidents to CSPR Panel)The senior manager who holds responsibility for notifying the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel following an incident where a child dies or is seriously harmed. |
Post title: Interim Director of Children's Services Contact details: 0118 974 6102 |
Designated Manager (Decision to Look After)The manager who can authorise a child becoming Looked After. |
Post title: Service Manager Corporate Parenting Service Manager Safeguarding Service Manager Children with Disabilities, Early Help and PYJS Contact details: Isabel.Prinsloo@wokingham.gov.uk |
Designated Manager (Emergency Protection Orders)The manager who can authorise an application for an Emergency Protection Order. |
Post title: Service Manager Corporate Parenting Service Manager Safeguarding Service Manager Children with Disabilities, Early Help and PYJS Contact details: Isabel.Prinsloo@wokingham.gov.uk |
Designated Manager (Emigration)The manager who can authorise the placement of a Child Looked After outside England and Wales. |
Post title: Interim Director of Children's Services Contact details: |
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 Children's Social Care and Early Help Contact details: |
Designated Manager (External Placements)The manager who can authorise placements of Children Looked After with external providers of residential care or foster carers from an independent fostering agency. |
Post title: Service Manager Corporate Parenting Contact details: |
Designated Manager (Fostering and Permanence Panel Appointments)The manager who can authorise appointments to the Central List of Fostering Panel members |
Post title: Service Manager Corporate Parenting Contact details: |
Designated Manager (Leaving Care)The manager who can approve a Pathway Plan. |
Post title: Relevant Line Manager |
Designated Manager (Children Missing from Care)The manager who is responsible for monitoring policies and performance relating to children who go missing from home or care. The manager is responsible for conducting regular analysis of missing data, seeking to identify factors or patterns that increase or reduce the likelihood of future missing episodes. |
Post title: Service Manager Corporate Parenting Contact details: |
Out of Area Children in Care NotificationsWhere a Child Looked After from another local authority has been placed in the area, the address the notification should be sent. |
Contact details: |
Designated Manager (Passports)The manager who can authorise a passport application for a Child Looked After. |
Post title: Service Manager Corporate Parenting Service Manager Safeguarding Service Manager Children with Disabilities, Early Help and PYJS Contact details: Isabel.Prinsloo@wokingham.gov.uk |
Designated Manager (Placement Orders)The manager who can authorise an application for a Placement Order. |
Post title: Assistant Director Children's Social Care and Early Help Contact details: |
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: Corporate Parenting Contact details: |
Designated Manager (Secure Accommodation)The manager who can authorise: A placement of a Child Looked After 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: Interim Director of Children's Services Contact details: |
Designated Manager (Special Guardianship)The manager who can authorise Special Guardianship as the permanence plan for a Child Looked After. |
Post title: Service Manager Corporate Parenting Contact details: Isabel.Prinsloo@wokingham.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. |
Post title: Service Manager Corporate Parenting Contact details: |
Nominated Officer (Disruption of Education)The manager who can authorise the change of placement affecting a Child Looked After in Key Stage 4. |
Post title: Service Manager Corporate Parenting Acting Head of Virtual School Head of SEND Contact details: |
Nominated Officer (Fostering for Adoption)The person who can authorise Fostering for Adoption. |
Post title: Service Manager Corporate Parenting Service Manager Safeguarding Contact details: |
Nominated Officer (Out of Area Placements)The manager who can authorise the placement of a Child Looked After outside the area of the local authority. |
Post title: Assistant Director Children's Social Care and Early Help Contact details: |
Nominated Officer (Immediate Placement of a Child Looked After with Connected Person)The manager who can authorise the placement of a Child Looked After with a family or friend ('Connected Person') who is not already approved as a foster carer. |
Post title: Assistant Director Children's Social Care and Early Help Contact details: |
Nominated Officer (Placement of a Child Looked After subject to Care Order or Interim Care Order with Parents)The manager who can authorise the placement of a Child Looked After 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 Children's Social Care and Early Help Contact details: |
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