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A


Absconded

Absent without Authority

Absent without Consent

Acceptable Behaviour Contract

Accommodated

Achieving Best Evidence

ACID

ACPO Gravity Factor System

Action Plan Order

Adoption Case Record

Adopted Children Register

Adoption Contact Register

Adoption Order

Adoption Placement Plan

Adoption Placement Report

Adoption Register

Adoption Review

Adoption Support Plan

Adoption Support Services Adviser

Adult at Risk

Adult Protection Plan

Advocate

After-care Under Supervision

Age Assessment

Agency Decision Maker

Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO)

Appeal Rights Exhausted (ARX)

Appointee

Appropriate Adult

Appropriate Consent

Approved Social Worker

ARX

ASBO

Assessment

Assessment and Progress Record

Assessment Framework

Asset Assessment

Asylum Casework Information Database (ACID)

Asylum Seeker

Attendance Centre Orders

Attorney

Authority to Place for Adoption

B


BAAF

Bail

Bail Supervision and Support (BSS)

BILD

Bournewood Provisions

Breach Action

British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)

British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD)

C


CAF

CAFCASS

Caldicott Guardian

Caldicott Principles

CAMHS

Care Council for Wales

Care and Social Services Inspectorate for Wales (CSSIW)

Care Standards Inspectorate for Wales (CSIW)

Care Order

Care Plan

Care Proceedings

Care Quality Commission (CQC)

Carer

Case Manager

Categories of Abuse or Neglect

Central List

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)

Child Assessment Order

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 Trust Fund

Childminder

Child's Permanence Report

Child's Plan

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

Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs)

Closure Record

Common Assessment Framework

Common Core Skills and Knowledge

Community Punishment Order

Concurrency Carers

Conditional Discharge

Connected Person

Contact Order

Contingency Plan

Continuing Care/Healthcare

Controlled Activity

Core Assessment

Core Group

Corporate Parenting

Court Appointed Deputy

Court of Protection

Court Ordered Secure Remand (COSR)

CPS Advanced Disclosure

Criminal Records Bureau (CRB)

Criteria for Child Protection Plans

CRB

CSIW

CSSIW

CWDC

Cyberbullying

CYPP

D


Dangerousness

DCSF

Decision-maker (under the Mental Capacity Act 2005)

Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)

Department for Education

Deportation Order

Designated Country

Designated Professional

Designated Senior Manager

Designated Teacher

Detention Placement Plan

Detention and Training Order

Direct Payments

Director of Children's Services

Disabled Child

Disbenefitted Case

Disclosure and Barring Service

Discretionary Leave to Remain

Dispersal Scheme

Disqualified Person (Adopter)

Disqualified Person (Foster Carer)

Disqualified Person (Staff or Volunteers)

Domicile

Donor

Drug Testing Requirement

Drug Treatment and Testing Order

Drug Treatment Requirement



E


Education Requirement

Eligible Young People

Emergency Placement Planning Meeting

Emergency Protection Order

Emigration

Emotional Abuse

Enduring Power of Attorney (EPA)

Escalation

Essential Standards of Quality and Safety

ETE

Every Child Matters

Exclusion Requirement

F


Fabricated or Induced Illnesses

FACS

Failed Asylum Claim

Failed to Travel

Fair Access to Care Services Eligibility Criteria

Family Assistance Order

Family Group Conference

Financial Abuse

Forced Marriage Protection Orders

Former Relevant Young People

Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and Their Families

Fraser Competent

Freeing Order

G


General Social Care Council

Genogram

Gillick Competent

Guardianship Order

H


Habitual Residence

HDC

Health Action Plan

Health Assessment

Health and Care Professions Council

Health and Safety Executive

Health and Wellbeing Boards

Health Care Plan

HMCS

Home Detention Curfew (HDC)

Home Remedies

Honour Based Violence

I


ICT Abuse

Ill treatment (under the Mental Health Act)

ILR

IMCA

Imprisonable Offence

In loco parentis

In Need

Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR)

Independent Domestic Violence Adviser (IDVA)

Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA)

Independent Review Mechanism

Independent Reviewing Officer

Independent Safeguarding Authority

Independent Visitor

Individual Education Plan

Individual Learning Plan

Individual Support Order (ISO)

Initial Assessment

Initial Child Protection Conference

Institutional Abuse

Inter-Agency Placement

Integrated Children's System (ICS)

Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme

Intensive Supervision and Surveillance (ISS) Requirement

Interim Care Order

Intermediary Service

Intoxicating Substance Treatment Requirement

IRM

ISO

J


Joint Strategic Needs Assessment


K


Key Elements of Effective Practice (KEEP)

Keyworker

L


LAC

LADO

Lawfully Detained

Lead Member for Children's Services

Lead Professional

Lead Social Worker

Likelihood of Reoffending

Link Worker

List 99

Local Authority Designated Officer

Local Authority Residence Requirement

Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB)

Looked After

Looked After Child

Looked After Review

LPA

LSCB



M


MAPPA

MARAC

Medical Adviser

Medical Assessment

Mental Health Treatment Requirement

Merton Compliant

Mixed Household

Mobility

Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA)

Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC)



N


Named Professional

NASS

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

National Panel of Independent Experts on Serious Case Reviews

National Referral Mechanism

National Minimum Standards

National Standards for Youth Justice Services

Neglect

Nominated Officer

Non-Designated Country

No Secrets

Notifiable Diseases

NSPCC

O


Office for Standards in Education

Office of the Public Guardian

Onset

P


Panel Adviser

Parallel Plan

Parental Consent to Adoptive Placement

Parental Responsibility

Parenting Order

Part 8 Review

Pastoral Support Plan

Pathway Plan

PCT

PENY

PEP

Permanence Plan

Personal Adviser

Personal Care

Personal Education Plan (PEP)

Physical Abuse

Physical Intervention

Placing Authority

Placement Information Record

Placement Order

Placement Plan

Placement Plan Review

Placement Plan/Placement Information Record

Placement Planning Meeting

Placements and Casework Service

PoCA List (Protection of Children Act 1999)

Police Protection

Pre-CAF

Pre-sentence Reports

Primary Care Trust (PCT)

Private Foster Carer

Private Fostering

Privately Fostered

Prohibited Steps Order

Prospective Adopter's Report

Protective Factors

Psychological Abuse

Public Law Outline

Pupil Referral Unit

Q


Qualifying Determination

Qualifying Young People

R


Recovery Order

Referral and Information Record

Referral Order

Registered Provider

Regulated Activity

Regulation 24 Placement

Regulation 30

Regulation 32/33

Regulation 34/35

Regulation 38 Placement

Regulation 43

Regulatory Authority

Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL)

Relevant Young People

Relinquished Children

Remand

Remand to Local Authority  Accommodation

Remand to Youth Detention Accommodation

Reparation Order

Reporting Officer

Residence Order

Residence Requirement

Responsible Individual

Restraint

Restriction of Liberty

Review Child Protection Conference

Review Conference

Risk of Serious Harm to Others

Risk of Sexual Harm Order

Risk to Children Offender

ROTL

S


Safeguarding and Promoting the Welfare of Children

Scaled Approach

Schedule One Offender

Screening Interview for Adolescents (SIFA)

Screening Questionnaire Interview for Adolescents (SQIFA)

Section 2 Notification

Section 5 Notification

Section 7 Report

Section 8 Order

Section 17

Section 20

Section 37 Report

Section 47 Enquiry

Section 84 Application

Secure Accommodation Order

Secure Accommodation (Criteria) Review

Secure Estate

Secure Hospital

Separated Children

Service User Plan

SEN

SEN Transition Plan

Serious Case Review

Sexual Abuse

Significant Harm

Single Assessment

SMART

Special Educational Needs

Special Guardianship Order

Specific Issues Order

Specific Sentence Report

SQIFA

Stand Down or Day of Sentence Report

Statement of Purpose

Statement of Special Education Needs (SEN)

Statutory Review

Strategy Discussion

Strategy Discussion/Meeting

Strategy Meeting

Staying Put Placements

Subs only

Sufficiency Duty

Supervision Order

Supervised Community Treatment

Supported Housing

T


Targeted Youth Support Service

Team Around the Child

Threshold Criteria

Trafficking

Twin Track Plan

U


Unaccompanied Asylum Seeker

Unauthorised Absence

Universal Services

Unpaid Work

V


Veto

Vetting and Barring Scheme

Violent Offender Order

Voice

Voluntary Accommodation

Vulnerability

Vulnerable Adult

W


Welfare Checklist

Whistleblowing

Wilful neglect (under the Mental Health Act)

Working Together to Safeguard Children

X


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Y


YJB

YOI

Young Offender Institution (YOI)

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

Z


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