Policy & Procedures

The starting point

Policies and Procedures need to:

  • Reflect current legislative requirements
  • Be grounded in current best practice
  • Informed by what is actually happening in reality
  • Formalise practice in order to protect:
        -  The service user
        -  The practitioner
        -  The department

Our Approach

  • To review policies, procedures, practice guidance and joint protocols in the light of current legislation and best practice
  • Undertake a gap analysis
  • Consider best practice and forthcoming legislation and guidance
  • Revise, amend or totally re-write policies and procedures in the light the information. This includes incorporating future requirements that can be anticipated.
  • Consulting extensively with practitioners and management
  • Liaising with IT on the incorporation of the revised policies onto the intranet
  • Developing a framework for ongoing review

    We are also able to offer a service for updating these policies in the light of new legislation and guidance.

    Lead Consultant: Marcia Gilbert

    Parental Reports to Child Protection Conferences

    Click here to download our paper on parents submitting written reports to conferences and reviews.

    Training

    The ability of an authority to deliver effective services is totally dependent on the skills and the performance of its staff. The single biggest factor in staff performance is the supervision available to practitioners. However it is not the existence of supervision, but its quality that is the determining factor in the achievement of good outcomes. The emphasis in the Munro review on professional decision-making rather than bureaucratic procedural approaches serves to underline the necessity for good supervision practice.

    Courses are provided on supervision skills on either a two day or two + one day basis. In conjunction with the training on supervision skills we are happy to support authorities in auditing their current supervision practice.

    • We also provide training on aspects of child and adult protection systems including: 
    • Chairing child protection conferences (Reg Marriott)
    • Chairing adult protection conferences ( Reg Marriott)
    • Chairing core groups
    • Minute taking at child protection conferences (Marcia Gilbert)
    • Minute taking at adult protection conferences (Marcia Gilbert)
    • General minute taking (Marcia Gilbert)

    Lead Consultant: Reg Marriott

    For more information, please call us today on  01495 769 448