Welcome to the Telford & Wrekin Children's Services Procedures Manual

This is the procedures manual for Telford & Wrekin Children Services.

Note: Telford and Wrekin are focused on the importance of the use of language especially with our partners and the children, young people and families that we work alongside. We have generated our own language guide in line with our work within the Family Safeguarding Model. If you are a practitioner, you can access this on the internal resource bank or contact the principle social worker for more information.

Contents - contains the main policies and procedures that ensures we comply with the law and statutory guidance.

Telford Practice Guidance - is maintained by Telford & Wrekin Children Services. It contains a range of resources including forms, local information and additional local guidance.

The Regional Child Protection Procedures for West Midlands can be accessed from the menu at the top of the home page and should be read alongside this manual as they will contain the guidance on a range of topics including CSE, Missing, FGM. It is important that you read these procedures too as they contain guidance to support you in the assessment process and in working with other agencies where there are child protection concerns.

Foster Carers Handbook – this contains the guidance for our Foster Carers and is used by our Fostering Service to support Foster Carers in their role and support them in meeting their Induction Standards.

See also the Children's Services Resource Bank which is being developed to support you in your role.

To report any issues or suggest improvements to the procedures or Telford Practice Guidance, please contact the Hub Project Team (HubProjectTeam@telford.gov.uk)

Please see the 'Using this Manual' for details about the way this manual works and don’t forget to register for updates for changes to the manual, click here to register for updates now.

See also: Children's Services Resource Bank.

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