One minute guides

Child Friendly Leeds

We have developed a library of ‘one minute guides’ that aim to provide straight-forward information about the different work we do and who is involved. The guides are for everyone to use and we’re regularly adding to them with new topics and information.

1. Best practice
2. Early help and targeted services
3. Education
4. Equality and diversity
5. Leeds ways of working
6. Looked after children and care leavers
7. Multi agency working
8. National legislation, guidance and inspection
9. Safeguarding and social work
10. SEND

Best practice

• Appreciative inquiry
• Multi-agency concerns resolution process
• Outcomes focused practice
• Publicly available data
• Safer recruitment
• Supervision
• Think family, work family
• Voice and influence
• Voice and influence opportunities
• Workforce development

Early help and targeted services

• 50 things to do before you're five
• Arts, music and culture for children
• Baby Steps
• Bail and remand protocol
• Cluster working
• Early help
• Early help hubs
• Early start
• Families First
• Family group conference (FGC) service
• Gambling and young people
• Kinship care
• Lifelong links
• Multi-systemic therapy
• PACT programme
• Relationship matters - reducing parental conflict
• Restorative early support teams
• Start in Leeds
• Support Care - children on the edge of care
• Youth Justice Service
• Youth Offer
• Youth Panel

Education

• Bullying
• Children missing education
• Children missing out on education
• Education attendance – statutory responsibilities
• Education safeguarding team
• Educational psychology
• Elective home education
• Increase FEEE take up - eligible children
• Personal Education Plans and the Pupil Premium Plus
• September Guarantee
• School admissions
• Supporting pupils at school with medical conditions
• The Virtual School in Leeds

Equality and diversity

• GRT Outreach and Inclusion Team
• Cultural cohesion quality mark
• Equality impact assessment
• Working with lesbian and gay young people
• Working with bi young people
• Working with trans young people
• Young carers

Leeds ways of working

• Child Friendly Leeds
• Child Friendly Leeds - Enrichment
• Children’s transport team
• Executive Member for Children's Services
• Innovations and partner in practice programme
• Leeds practice model
• Rethink formulation
• Restorative conference
• Restorative practice

Looked after children and care leavers

• Contact or Family time
• Foster carer reviews
• Fostering service
• Have a Voice council
• Independent reviewing officer (IRO)
• Independent visitors
• Mockingbird family model
• Reunification
• Section 20 Children Act 1989

Multi agency working

• Designated and named professionals in health
• Forward Leeds
• Health economy in Leeds
• Leeds Safeguarding Children Partnership (LSCP)
• MindMate
• MindMate Friendly and Champion programme
• Police powers of protection
• Probation Service
• SUDIC - Sudden Unexpected Death in Childhood

National legislation, guidance and inspection

• Area SEND thematic visits
• Children and Families Act
• Care Act
• Domestic homicide reviews
• Growing up neglected - Joint Targeted Area Inspection report on neglect
• Joint Targeted Area Inspection - Domestic abuse
• Ofsted inspection framework
• Ofsted and CQC SEND
• ‘Prevent, Protect and Repair’ - report on domestic abuse JTAI inspections
• Serious case reviews
• Serious Crime Act - protection of children
• Third sector
• Time to Listen - Joint Targeted Area Inspection report on CSE
• Working together to safeguard children

Safeguarding and social work

• Absent missing and away from placement without authorisation
• Caring dads programme
• Child and family assessment
• Child criminal exploitation
• Child protection conference
• Child protection conference chair
• Child sex offenders disclosure scheme
• Child sexual abuse in the family environment
• Child sexual exploitation
• Child trafficking
• Children in employment and entertainment
• Children’s Emergency Duty Team
• Coercive control offence
• Domestic violence
• Domestic violence disclosure scheme
• Domestic violence in young people’s relationships
• Domestic violence school notifications
• Duty and advice team
• Family drug and alcohol court
• Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
• Forced marriage
• Front door safeguarding hub
• Honour based abuse
• Leeds domestic violence service
• Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO)
• MACE framework
• Mosaic
• Neglect
• Police welfare checks
• Preparation for Initial Child Protection Conferences
• Private fostering
• Harmful sexual behaviour
• Professional curiosity
• Public law outline
• Radicalisation and preventing extremism
• Return Interview Service
• Safe Project
• Safeguarding deaf children
• Therapeutic Social Work Team

SEND

• Child health and disability service
• Early years funding for inclusion
• Education Health and Care Plans (EHCPs)
• Everyone's included Leeds SEND and Inclusion strategy
• Fostering for children with disabilities
• Leeds Local Offer
• Making schools accessible
• Personal Budgets
• Portage
• SENDIASS - Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information Advice Support Service
• SENIT - Special Educational Needs and Inclusion Team
• SENSAP - Special Educational Needs Statutory Assessment and Provision team
• Short breaks and fun activities
• Short Breaks Fostering for children with disabilities