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- A guide to the placement of young people in therapeutic residential services
- Adoption Act 2009
- Adoption Practice Manual
- Adult household member guidelines
- Advanced training
- Attachment 1: Self-harm and suicide risk - identifying risk factors and warning signs
- Care agreements - Information for parents
- Carer Business Discount Card
- Carer information sheets
- Child Health Passport - private and confidential
- Child Protection Act 1999
- Child Protection Regulation 2011
- Children and Young People's Participation Strategy
- Code of Conduct for the Queensland Public Service
- Complaints management policy
- Complaints management procedure
- Compliments and compliants feedback
- Confidentiality and privacy information for private contractors and panel participants Confidentiality and privacy information for private contractors and panel participants
- Critical steps in case planning
- Developing the goal, outcomes and actions
- End of life decision-making - Guide
- Escalation flowchart Department of Housing and Child Safety - dispute resolution re: service provision
- Evolve Interagency Services Manual
- Example of order to be made - Returning child to another jurisdiction
- Example of order to be made - Returning child to Queensland
- Fact sheet 1: What is provisional approval?
- Fact sheet 5: Foster and kinship care - Legislative requirements for providing care
- Fact sheet 8: Foster and kinship care - Blue cards
- Family group meeting convenor handbook
- Finalise the strengths and needs assessment
- Flowchart - Requesting housing assistance from Housing and Homelessness Services
- Form 3A: Guidelines for completing assessment report - Initial approval only
- Form 3B: Guidelines for completing assessment report - Renewal of approval
- Foster and Kinship carer handbook
- ICMS Child Protection - Linking court orders
- Info kit for children and young people in care
- Information Coordination Meetings (ICM) and the Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) Team System Manual
- Information for Department of Child Safety - Department of Housing products
- Information privacy statement
- Information sheet for carers and staff members
- Information sheet for children and young people
- Intake prompt sheet
- Integrated Client Management System (ICMS) Child protection participant manual
- Intensive foster care program description
- Interim Memorandum of Understanding between State of Queensland (through the department Child Safety, Youth and Families) and State of Queensland (through Queensland Health Child and Youth Mental health Services) 2010-2013
- Intervention diagram
- Intervention with parental agreement - Information for parents
- Interview resource: Childhood experiences
- Interview resource: Ecomap
- Interview resource: Family relationships
- Interview resource: Genogram
- Interview resource: Instructions
- Interview resource: Interview with child
- Interview resource: Interview with other household member
- Interview resource: Interview with young person
- Interview resource: Lifeline
- Interview resource: Motivation to foster
- Interview resource: Parenting styles
- Interview resource: Statement of standards
- Interview resource: Support in times of stress
- Interview resource: Teamwork
- Interview resource: Use of time
- Interviewing children and recording evidence (ICARE)
- Key factors for the Department when considering the level of intervention in a Family Law Court Proceeding
- Kids rights: Charter of Rights for children in care
- Kinship care program description
- Kinship care: A Literature Review
- Kinship carer initial assessment report guidelines
- Kinship carer renewal assessment report guidelines
- Listening, hearing and acting: Approaches to the participation of children and young people in decision making
- Long-term guardianship to a suitable person: Information for carers
- Long-term guardianship to a suitable person: Information for children and young people
- Long-term guardianship to a suitable person: Information for parents
- Medicare information sheet
- Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between The State of Queensland through the Department of Child Safety and The State of Queensland through the Department of Housing 2007
- Memorandum of Understanding between Department of Education and Training and the Department of Communities 2010 (Child Safety Services)
- Memorandum of Understanding between Disability Services Queensland and the Department of Child Safety 2007-2010, Schedule 2
- Module 5: Maintaining client files
- Multicultural Policy and Action Plan
- My journey in care
- Physical and cognitive developmental milestones
- Practice guide: The assessment of harm and risk of harm
- Practice guide: Unaccompanied humanitarian minor wards
- Practice paper: A framework for practice with 'high risk' young people (12-17 years)
- Practice paper: Assessment of foster carer applicants
- Practice paper: Carer support Practice paper: Carer support
- Practice paper: Child sexual abuse
- Practice paper: Domestic and family violence and its relationship to child protection Practice paper: Domestic and family violence and its relationship to child protection
- Practice paper: Engaging parents through case work Practice paper: Engaging parents through case work
- Practice paper: Engaging with families Practice paper: Engaging with families
- Practice paper: Family contact for children and young people in out-of-home care
- Practice paper: Parental substance misuse and child protection: intervention strategies
- Practice paper: Parental substance misuse and child protection: overview, indicators, impacts, risk and protective factors
- Practice paper: Permanency planning Practice paper: Permanency planning
- Practice paper: Placing children in out-of-home care - principles and guidelines for improving outcomes
- Practice paper: Supporting children and young people in care through transitions
- Practice paper: Valuing and improving educational outcomes for children in out-of-home care Practice paper: Valuing and improving educational outcomes for children in out-of-home care
- Practice paper: Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
- Practice paper: Working with children and young people in out-of-home care
- Practice paper: Working with parents who demonstrate hostile and aggressive behaviour
- Practice paper: Working with people form culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
- Practice resource: Approved carers - an overview
- Practice resource: Assessing the progress of the case plan
- Practice resource: Assessment of kinship carer applicants
- Practice resource: Assessment orders
- Practice resource: Bank accounts
- Practice resource: Case planning - an overview
- Practice resource: Child concern report responses and referrals Practice resource: Child concern report responses and referrals
- Practice resource: Child health passports
- Practice resource: Child health passports flowchart
- Practice resource: Children with sexual abuse histories
- Practice resource: Communicating with the notifier
- Practice resource: Comparison of the key steps for carer approval
- Practice resource: Completing the Certificate of Approval
- Practice resource: Completing the joint action plan
- Practice resource: CSAHSC - profile and crisis intervention model
- Practice resource: Departmental employees as carer applicants or approved carers
- Practice resource: Developing a cultural support plan for an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander child
- Practice resource: DNA paternity testing
- Practice resource: Education outcomes for children in out-of-home care Practice resource: Education outcomes for children in out-of-home care
- Practice resource: Evolve interagency services
- Practice resource: Explaining harm and criminal offences
- Practice resource: Facilitating family contact
- Practice resource: Family risk evaluation
- Practice resource: Funerals and memorial services
- Practice resource: Guide to supporting positive behaviour
- Practice resource: Guidelines for departmental staff when providing information to the court regarding a domestic violence order application
- Practice resource: Information gathering guide
- Practice resource: Information sharing - case examples
- Practice resource: Informing parents about the harm and the outcome - section 15
- Practice resource: Interviewing a child
- Practice resource: Key concepts for the regulation of care
- Practice resource: Legislative provisions in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children with their families
- Practice resource: Legislative requirements for the approval of kinship carers Practice resource: Legislative requirements for the approval of kinship carers
- Practice resource: Long-term guardianship - assessment factors
- Practice resource: Long-term guardianship orders - a comparison
- Practice resource: Mandatory advice to blue card applicants
- Practice resource: Meeting the statement of standards
- Practice resource: Negotiating support arrangements for approved carers Practice resource: Negotiating support arrangements for approved carers
- Practice resource: Notifiers and mandatory notifiers
- Practice resource: Out-of-home care - an integrated child protection response
- Practice resource: Overview of referral and planning process with Department of Housing
- Practice resource: Participation of children and young people in decision-making
- Practice resource: Placement documentation
- Practice resource: Placement matching principles
- Practice resource: Placements with another entity - 82(1)(f)
- Practice resource: Planning for and undertaking a joint investigation
- Practice resource: Planning the investigation and assessment
- Practice resource: Program of supports - long-term guardians
- Practice resource: Providing adoption services
- Practice resource: Receiving Integrated Justice Information Strategy email alert information
- Practice resource: Recording notification information
- Practice resource: Recording the investigation and assessment
- Practice resource: Recording your professional assessment about whether the child is in need of protection
- Practice resource: Regional intake services workflow
- Practice resource: Respite options
- Practice resource: Responsibilities - long-term guardians
- Practice resource: Reviewing the foster carer agreement
- Practice resource: Safety assessment Practice resource: Safety assessment
- Practice resource: Safety and support plans - young people frequently absent or missing Practice resource: Safety and support plans - young people frequently absent or missing
- Practice resource: Schedule of criminal offences
- Practice resource: School Disciplinary absence Practice resource: School Disciplinary absence
- Practice resource: Section 55 requests - Domestic and Family Violence Act 2012
- Practice resource: Standards of care - key concepts and definitions
- Practice resource: Structured decision making - an overview
- Practice resource: Suitability decision-making for a new adult household member Practice resource: Suitability decision-making for a new adult household member
- Practice resource: Support levels and behaviour characteristics
- Practice resource: Supporting parents who have an intellectual disability Practice resource: Supporting parents who have an intellectual disability
- Practice resource: Temporary custody order
- Practice resource: The authority to care form
- Practice resource: The child placement principle
- Practice resource: The role of a support person
- Practice resource: The role of the CSO at intake
- Practice resource: Transferring an ongoing intervention case
- Practice resource: Transition from care
- Practice resource: Unborn children
- Practice resource: Use of powers for a child at immediate risk - section 16 and 18
- Practice resource: Vexatious and malicious notifiers
- Practice resource: Working with family courts
- Practice resource: Writing an affidavit
- Pre-service training
- Procedures and guidelines for Quality Care: Foster Care Training
- Protocol between the Family Court of Australia and the Federal Magistrates Court of Australia and the Department of Child Safety Queensland
- RecFind user guide
- Recordkeeping: Client file procedure
- Reporting missing children: Guidelines for approved carers and care services
- Responding to people at risk of suicide: How can you and your organisation help?
- Right to Information
- Schedule 2 Providing housing assistance to children in need of protection
- SDM: Child strengths and needs assessment
- SDM: Family reunification assessment
- SDM: Family risk evaluation
- SDM: Family risk re-evaluation
- SDM: Parental strengths and needs assessment
- SDM: Response priority
- SDM: Safety assessment
- SDM: Screening criteria
- Serious criminal offences
- Standard training
- Standards of care
- Standards of care flowchart
- Statement of Commitment between the Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services and the foster and kinship carers of Queensland
- Statutory delegations
- Strategic Plan
- Strengths and needs interviewing questions
- Support Service Case: Information for young people transitioning from care
- The case planning process
- The Child Placement Principle Prompt Sheet
- Transfer summary sheet - administrative transfer from Queensland to all states and New Zealand
- Transition from Care Planning Tips for CSOs
- Translated resources (Child Safety website)
- When Child Safety officers visit your home
- Youth Protocol: An agreement concerning referral, assessment, case management and support for homeless and unsupported young people
- Last reviewed
- 17 April 2018
- Last modified
- 9 September 2019
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