List of Agency Decision Makers, Designated Managers and Nominated Officers
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Consent to life-ending withdrawal of medical support for a child will require an application to the High Court even if all relevant parties are in agreement. Legal advice must be sought as a matter of urgency.
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This chapter was updated in October 2024.Designated Managers with Specified Area of Responsibility
| Designated Managers with Specified Area of Responsibility | Post Title and Contact Details |
Agency Decision Maker (Adoption)The Agency Decision Maker who makes decisions on all adoption matters (some of which will be made on the basis of a recommendation of the Adoption Panel). |
Post title: Director of Children’s Safeguarding & Family Support Service Delivery Manager Children’s Safeguarding and Family Support (Assessment & CATE) |
Agency Decision Maker (Fostering)The Agency Decision Maker who makes decisions on fostering matters (on the basis of recommendations of the Fostering Panel). |
Post title: Service Delivery Manager for Fostering, Adoption & Permanence |
Designated Manager (Adoption Panel Appointments)The manager who can authorise appointments to the Central List of Adoption Panel members. |
Post title: Principal Manager, Central Permanency Hub, T4C |
Designated Manager (Adoption Support)The manager who can authorise the level of adoption support to be provided to children, adopters (including financial support) and their family or birth family members. |
Post title: Adoption Support Manager, T4C |
Designated Manager (Care Plans)The manager who can authorise the final Care Plan to be taken before the Court within Care Proceedings. |
Post title: Service Deliver Manager |
Designated Manager (Care Proceedings)The manager who can authorise the initiating of Care Proceedings. |
Post title: Service Delivery Manager |
Designated Manager (Change of Name)The manager who can authorise the change of name of a Looked After Child. |
Post title: Director |
Designated Manager (Contact with Parents)The manager who can authorise the suspension or termination of contact between a Looked After child and his or her parents (subject to the Court's approval after 7 days for children on Emergency Protection Orders, Interim Care Orders or Care Orders). |
Post title: Service Delivery Manager |
Designated Manager (Death or Serious Injury to a Child)The senior manager who should be notified in the event of death or serious injury to a child. |
Post title: Director |
Designated Manager (Decision to Look After)The manager who can authorise a child becoming Looked After. |
Post title: Service Delivery Manager/ Director |
Designated Manager (Emergency Protection Orders)The manager who can authorise an application for an Emergency Protection Order. |
Post title: Service Delivery Manager/ Director |
Designated Manager (Emigration)The manager who can authorise the placement of a Looked after child outside England and Wales. |
Post title: Director |
Designated Manager (Exemptions and Extensions from Fostering Limit)The manager who can authorise any exemptions from the usual fostering limit for foster carers living in the local authority area. |
Post title: Service Delivery Manager (Fostering) |
Designated Manager (External Placements)The manager who can authorise placements of Looked After children with external providers of residential care or foster carers from an independent fostering agency. |
Post title: Director |
Designated Manager (Fostering Panel Appointments)The manager who can authorise appointments to the Central List of Fostering Panel members |
Post title: Appointed Team Manager Fostering |
Designated Manager (Leaving Care)The manager who can approve a Pathway Plan. |
Post title: Team Manager |
Designated Manager (Notifications)Where a Looked After Child from another local authority has been placed in the area, the manager to whom the notification should be sent. |
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Designated Manager (Passports)The manager who can authorise a passport application for a Looked After child. |
Post title: Service Delivery Manager |
Designated Manager (Placement Orders)The manager who can authorise an application for a Placement Order. |
Post title: Service Delivery Manager/ Director |
Designated Manager (Private Fostering)The manager who can approve assessments of private foster carers, impose requirements on private foster carers or decide to prohibit someone from acting as a private foster carer. |
Post title: Team Manager/Service Delivery Manager |
Designated Manager (Secure Accommodation)The manager who can authorise: A placement of a Looked After child in secure accommodation for up to 72 hours without a Secure Accommodation Order; and/or An application for a Secure Accommodation Order; and/or A child's continued secure placement on the recommendation of the Secure Accommodation Review Panel; and/or Applications to renewal Secure Accommodation Orders on the recommendation of the Secure Accommodation Review Panel. |
Post title: Director |
Designated Manager (Special Guardianship)The manager who can authorise Special Guardianship as the permanence plan for a Looked After child. |
Post title: Service Delivery Manager/ Director |
Designated Manager (Special Guardianship Support)The manager who can authorise the level of special guardianship support to be provided, including financial support to special guardians. |
Post title: Service Delivery Manager |
Nominated Officer (Disruption of Education)The manager who can authorise the change of placement affecting a Looked After child in Key Stage 4. |
Post title: Service Delivery Manager |
Nominated Officer (Fostering for Adoption)The person who can authorise Fostering for Adoption. |
Post title: Director of Children’s Safeguarding & Family Support Service Delivery Manager Children’s Safeguarding and Family Support (Assessment & CATE) |
Nominated Officer (Out of Area Placements)The manager who can authorise the placement of a Looked After child outside the area of the local authority. |
Post title: Service Delivery Manager Director |
Nominated Officer (Immediate Placement of a Looked After Child with Kinship Foster Carer)The manager who can authorise the placement of a Looked After child with a Kinship Foster Carer sometimes called family or friend ('Connected Person') who is not already approved as a foster carer. |
Post title: Service Delivery Manager for Fostering, Adoption and Permanence/Director |
Nominated Officer (Placement of a Looked After Child subject to Care Order or Interim Care Order with Parents)The manager who can authorise the placement of a Looked After child with a parent, person with Parental Responsibility or person who held a Residence Order/Child Arrangements Order specifying with whom the child was to reside immediately before the Care Order. |
Post title: Director |
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