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Child Safety Services
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Child safety service centres: staff roles and responsibilities
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Structured Decision Making
What is Structured Decision Making?
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10.1 Decision-making about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
Key steps
1. Enable meaningful participation in decision-making
2. Arrange for an independent person to facilitate the child's and family's participation
3. Refer the family for family-led decision-making
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10. General
1. Intake
2. Investigation and assessment
3. Ongoing intervention
4. Case planning
5. Children in care
6. Intervention with parental agreement
7. Support service cases
8. Regulation of care
9. Standards of care
10.1 Decision-making about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
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
10.22 International child protection matters and the Hague Child Abduction Convention
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
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
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Departmental resources
Brochure for families - Support for children and families to have their say
Brochure for an independent person - Supporting children and families to have their say in decisions
Letter to the Independent person
template
Practice resource: Culturally capable behaviours
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PDF
, 412 KB)
Practice resource: Culturally capable behaviours
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DOCX
, 50 KB)
Poster - Information for staff: Who can be an independent person for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child and/or family?
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PDF
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Poster - Information for staff: Significant decisions about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people
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PDF
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YouTube video - Information for families about an independent person
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Understanding and applying the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle (SNAICC)
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20 April 2018
Last modified
1 September 2019
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