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This booklet attracts on quite a lot of facts to discover the evidence concerning the dating among substance misuse and household violence and their impression on teenagers, and examines the reaction of kid's companies whilst there are matters in regards to the defense and welfare of youngsters. It finds the vulnerability of those little ones and the level to which household violence, parental alcohol or parental drug misuse effect on kid's healthiness and improvement, impact the adults' capability to adopt key parenting projects, and impact the reaction of wider family members and the neighborhood. It contains mom and dad' learn more... advent -- The reaction of kid's social care -- Collaborative operating -- households' event of referral and evaluation -- households' event of providers -- Plans, methods and joint protocols -- education -- Conclusions and implications for coverage and perform
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3%) the core assessment resulted in a plan. Although every core assessment should result in a plan, nonetheless this is practically twice the rate found in earlier research (Cleaver et al. 2004a). In 33 cases the core assessment did not result in a plan. It could be argued that a plan had not been recorded following the core assessment because the case had been taken to an initial child protection conference where a separate plan would be drawn up. 8%) where no plan was found as a result of the core assessment an initial child protection conference had been held.
One way of doing this is to provide the family with a copy of the initial assessment. In a fifth of cases social workers noted that parents had been given a copy. 2% of cases). The interviews with families (see Chapter 4) suggest that deciding not to provide families with a copy of the assessment did not mean that the outcome of the initial assessment was not discussed. 2%) of case records, that the outcome of the initial assessment had been communicated to families. Strategy discussion When there is reasonable cause to suspect the child is suffering or is likely to suffer significant harm, the initial assessment should be brief and children’s social care should convene quickly a strategy discussion (Department of Health et al.
In both groups, children’s social care also provided a service in 22 cases. Of particular concern is the finding that a core assessment was initiated in only 13 of the 56 cases classified as multiple-problem. 3%) a strategy meeting was held, and in two cases immediate legal action to protect the child was taken. There was a similar pattern of outcomes for cases irrespective of whether domestic violence or parental substance misuse had been identified as one of the reasons for the assessment. 1%) where there was evidence of domestic violence a referral was made to a domestic violence service provider.