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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
- Delegations
- Accountability for children in Queensland
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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
- 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 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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- Last reviewed
- 20 April 2018
- Last modified
- 11 September 2016
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