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- Introduction
- Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women
- Relevant legislation
- Other key documents
- Child safety service centres: staff roles and responsibilities
- Framework for the participation of children and young people in decision-making
- Respecting diversity
- Recognised entities
- Delegations
- Accountability for children in Queensland
- Resources
- Framework for practice and maps
- Chapters
- Practice papers
- Resources
- Structured Decision Making
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Child Safety Practice Manual
- Introduction
- Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women
- Relevant legislation
- Other key documents
- Child safety service centres: staff roles and responsibilities
- Framework for the participation of children and young people in decision-making
- Respecting diversity
- Recognised entities
- Delegations
- Accountability for children in Queensland
- Resources
- Framework for practice and maps
- Chapters
- 1. Intake
- 2. Investigation and assessment
- 3. Ongoing intervention
- 4. Case planning
- 5. Children in out-of-home care
- 6. Intervention with parental agreement
- 7. Support service cases
- 8. Regulation of care
- 9. Standards of care
- Key steps
- 1. Provide support to carers
- 2. Monitor the standards of care
- 3. Decide the appropriate response when concerns are identified
- 4. Continue monitoring the standards of care
- 5. Conduct a standards of care review - carers
- 6. Conduct a standards of care review - care services
- 7. Investigate and assess a harm report
- 8. Action plans
- What ifs
- Resources
- Key steps
- 10. General
- 10.1 Decision-making about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
- 10.2 Statutory obligation to notify the Queensland Police Service of possible criminal offences
- 10.3 Information sharing for service delivery coordination
- 10.4 Providing adoption services
- Key steps
- 1. Provide adoption services
- 2. Determine the primary case worker
- 3. Supervise services delivered by the primary case worker
- 4. Provide pre-consent counselling to parents
- 5. Facilitate an adoption care agreement for a child whose parents are receiving pre-consent counselling
- 6. Witness consents to an adoption
- 7. Provide information and counselling to a child and consider the child's views
- 8. Pursue adoption for a child subject to a child protection order
- 9. Respect Aboriginal tradition and Island custom
- 10. Respond to a request to provide one-off post adoption services
- 11. Record information
- Resources
- Key steps
- 10.5 Recording sensitivity
- 10.6 Downgrading or deleting an approved notification
- 10.7 Undertake the substance testing of parents
- 10.8 Responding to self-harming behaviour
- 10.9 Responding to suicide risk behaviour
- 10.10 Warrant for the apprehension of a child
- 10.11 Staff safety and well-being
- 10.12 Professional supervision
- 10.13 The video taping or recording of departmental staff
- 10.14 Referring to Family and Child Connect or intensive family support services for early intervention
- 10.15 The role of the Child Safety After Hours Service Centre
- 10.16 Referral to an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander family support service
- 10.17 Complaints management
- 10.18 Interstate and New Zealand matters
- 10.19 Systems and Practice Reviews following the serious physical injury or death of a child
- 10.20 Victims of crime and the role of Victim Assist Queensland
- 10.21 Family courts
- Key steps
- 1. The family courts and child protection interface
- 2. Exchange of information
- 3. Assess information received about harm or risk of harm
- 4. Respond to an order requesting intervention by the department - section 91B orders
- 5. Undertake an investigation and assessment
- 6. Respond to a child in need of protection
- What ifs
- Resources
- Key steps
- 10.22 International child protection matters and the Hague Child Abduction Convention
- What ifs
- Resources
- Practice papers
- Resources
- Structured Decision Making
- Quicklinks
- Acronyms
- Glossary of terms
- How to use the Child Safety Practice Manual
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Child Safety Practice Manual
The Child Safety Practice Manual provides a comprehensive set of procedures that guide and inform the delivery of child protection services by the Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women in Queensland.
The Child Safety Practice Manual consists of the following chapters:
- Chapter 1. Intake
- Chapter 2. Investigation and assessment
- Chapter 3. Ongoing intervention
- Chapter 4. Case planning
- Chapter 5. Children in out-of-home care
- Chapter 6. Intervention with parental agreement
- Chapter 7. Support service cases
- Chapter 8. Regulation of care
- Chapter 9. Standards of care
- Chapter 10. General
For information about the format of the chapters and how to use the Child Safety Practice Manual, please refer to How to use the Child Safety Practice Manual.
A printable version of the Child Safety Practice Manual is also available.
- Last reviewed
- 17 April 2018
- Last modified
- 6 July 2017
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