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  • Policies and Procedures
    • Phases
      • Intake
        • Intake policy
        • Receiving, registering and classifying a report
        • Unborn child reports
        • Section 38 consultations
        • Child in contact with sex offender
        • Family Court, Federal Circuit Court and Magellan List
        • Referral from Children's Court - Criminal Division
        • Court report request - Family Division
        • Interstate requests
        • Hague Convention - Child Protection
        • Allegations of sexually abusive behaviour
        • SOS client contact
        • New allegations
        • Irreconcilable differences
        • Assessing and managing family violence in intake
        • Changing the status of a child from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander during intake phase
        • Conducting the intake risk assessment
        • Intake to manage permanent care order
      • Investigation
        • Investigation policy
        • Investigation plan
        • First visit
        • Completing the investigation following the first visit
        • Decision on outcome of investigation
        • Investigation of sexually abusive behaviour
        • Decision making after TTR investigation
        • Assessing and managing family violence during the investigation phase
        • Conducting the risk assessment
      • Protective intervention
        • Protective intervention policy
        • Protective intervention phase outcomes
        • Assessing and managing family violence during protective intervention phase
        • Case management in protective intervention
      • Protection order
        • Protection order policy
        • Case contracting
        • Case management
        • Directing a parent to resume full responsibility
        • Assessing and managing family violence during protection order phase
        • Concluding the protection order phase
        • Managing therapeutic treatment orders
      • Closure
        • Closure policy
        • Closing a case
        • Closing therapeutic treatment orders and therapeutic treatment placement orders
    • Case planning
      • Case planning policy
      • Case plan preparation and review following the making of a protection order
      • Enacting a case plan
      • Internal review of a decision following the making of a protection order
      • Case planning without a protection order
      • Client visit policy
      • Reviewing the risk assessment
    • Court
      • Applications by emergency care before a Bail Justice
      • Directions hearing
      • Applications by emergency care
      • Affidavits and statutory declarations
      • Initial court applications - by notice
      • Permanent care orders
      • Reporting back following a referral from the Criminal Division of the Children’s Court
      • Return of temporary assessment order
      • Temporary assessment order (without notice)
      • Withdrawing a protection application
      • Responding to subpoenas
      • Warrants
        • Cancelling a warrant or missing persons report
        • Interstate warrant
        • Warrants
      • Court procedure
        • Adjournments
        • Appeals
        • Dispensation of service
        • Gaol order
        • Service of documents
        • Witness summons
      • Family violence
        • Application for a family violence or personal safety intervention order on behalf of a child
        • Child exclusion condition on family violence orders
      • Breaches, variations, revocations and extensions
        • Applications to extend orders
        • Breach by notice
        • Breach of an order by emergency care or application for a new IAO by emergency care
        • Variations and revocations
      • Applying for a suppression order for a child protection client
      • CMS Portal - Procedure
      • Family Drug Treatment Court - procedure
      • Family reunification orders and an alcohol or drug treatment condition for parents
      • Information sharing with the Magistrates' Court and the Children's Court
    • Information sharing
      • Child Link - procedure
      • Child Link policy
      • Connect for Safety Child Protection record search - procedure
      • Information sharing policy
      • Compulsory disclosure
    • Out-of-home care
      • Care allowance
      • Care teams
      • Contact
      • Education planning
      • Interstate and international travel
      • Kinship care
      • Leaving care
      • Passports
      • Placing a child in out-of-home care
      • Voluntary placements
      • Secure welfare
        • Review of a decision to place at a secure welfare service
        • Secure welfare service placement
        • Secure welfare service planning meetings
        • Transport between court and a secure welfare service
        • When a secure welfare service is at or nearing capacity
      • Accessing Better Futures Flexible Funding - procedure
      • Applying for Home Stretch - procedure
      • Applying for a Medicare number for a child in care
      • Applying for a birth certificate - procedure
      • Applying for evidence of citizenship on behalf of a child
      • Authorising carers using the child specific authorisation
      • Discretionary endorsement for usual adult household members unable to hold a Working with Children Clearance - policy
      • Establishing and managing funds in the State Guardianship Fund
      • My Health Record and children in out-of-home care policy
      • My Health Record
      • Overnight stays
      • Procedure to seek endorsement for a household member unable to hold a Working with Children Clearance
      • Referral to Better Futures - procedure
      • Registering a child’s birth - procedure
      • Working with Children Clearance prohibition, suspension, revocation, interim exclusion notice, or exclusion notice - procedure
      • Working with Children Clearance, prohibition, suspension, revocation, interim exclusion and exclusion notice - policy
    • National police history checks
      • National police history checks policy
      • CSOs undertaking national police history checks
      • Contact with children placed in OoHC
      • National police history checks for worker safety
      • Placement approval where national police history check details are delayed
      • Undertaking a national police history check
      • Obtaining authorisation to request police checks
      • Undertaking an international police history check
    • Aboriginal children
      • Aboriginal children policy
      • Additional requirements for Aboriginal children
      • Case planning for Aboriginal children
      • Changing the status of a child from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
      • Cultural plans
      • Identifying Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander children
      • Statement of Recognition Act 2023 - Recognition Principles Guidance
      • Statement of Recognition Act 2023 Policy
    • Children in specific circumstances
      • Assessment of suitability for a youth control order
      • Child found unattended at home
      • Children in immigration detention
      • Enhanced Bail Supervision and Support – procedure
      • Female genital mutilation - procedure
      • Fire risk behaviours
      • Forced marriage - procedure
      • Gender diverse clients and recording gender identity - procedure
      • High-risk youth
      • High-risk youth panels and schedules
      • Infant risk assessment and response decision
      • Intensive bail
      • L17 Family Violence Portal Historical Search
      • Possible contact to AHCPES
      • SIDS safe sleeping assessment
      • Seeking assistance from SOS
      • Sexual exploitation
      • Undisclosed placements - procedure
      • Unidentified abandoned child
      • Youth control orders planning meetings
      • Children related to DHHS staff
    • Critical incidents
      • Allegations of harm to clients in care – Client Incident Management System (CIMS)
      • Client Incident Management System (CIMS) policy
      • Death of current or former client
      • Missing children and young people
      • Missing persons report
      • Publication of identifying details
      • Threats to kill a child, parent or carer
    • Case allocation and transfers
      • Case transfers policy
      • Interstate and New Zealand transfers
      • Monitoring and managing cases awaiting allocation
      • Transfers to and from the AHCPES
      • Transfers within and between divisions
    • Health, Medical and Disability
      • Case management: NDIS and children with a disability and/or complex medical needs
      • Consent for medical examination and treatment
      • Intake: NDIS and children with a disability and/or complex medical needs
      • Managing cases where medicinal cannabis is being used
      • Medical and forensic examinations
      • Requesting a drug screen
      • Young people with a cognitive disability who may require a guardian or administrator upon leaving care
  • Advice and Protocols
    • Advice
      • Intake
        • Intake phase
        • Receiving and processing reports
        • Re-reports
        • Consultation with community-based child and family welfare services
        • Unborn child reports
        • Case conferences
        • Family Court, Federal Circuit Court and Magellan List
        • Court report requests - Family Division
        • Referral from Children's Court - Criminal Division
        • Interstate requests
        • Malicious reports
        • Hague Convention
        • Irreconcilable differences
        • Mandatory reporting
        • Intake outcomes
        • Concluding intake
      • Investigation
        • Investigation phase
        • Investigation planning
        • Conducting the first visit
        • Joint visits with police
        • Interviewing without parental permission
        • Seeking information from other sources
        • Verifying orders
        • Temporary assessment orders
        • Immediate removal of a child
        • Substantiation
        • VARE
        • Court action
        • Genograms
        • Photographs
        • Investigation outcomes
        • Concluding investigation
      • Protective intervention
        • Protective intervention phase
        • Protective intervention outcomes
        • Concluding protective intervention
      • Protection order
        • Protection order phase
        • Case contracting
        • Compensation proceedings
        • Protection order outcomes
        • Concluding protection order phase
      • Closure
        • Closure phase
        • Closure tasks
        • Closure outcomes
      • Case planning
        • Case planning
        • Family reunification
        • Family-led decision making (FLDM) model
        • Internal review of decisions
        • VCAT review
        • Assessing and managing family violence in child protection - advice
        • Identifying and achieving the permanency objective
        • Request for, and provision of, a Statement of Reasons
        • Risk assessment - advice
        • Working with adult perpetrators of family violence
      • Court
        • Protection order descriptions
        • Preparation for court
          • Early legal advice
          • Legal aid
          • Legal representation for children
          • Secure welfare services transport
        • Hearings
          • Child attendance at court
          • Closed court
          • Conciliation conference addendum report guide
          • Conciliation conferences
          • Contested court hearings
          • Directions hearings
          • Guide for managing applications by emergency care before a Bail Justice
          • Negotiating a settlement
          • Placement in secure welfare services on s. 598 warrant
          • Roles & responsibilities in court proceedings
        • Legal processes
          • Access to court reports
          • Children's Court search warrants
          • Children's Court witness summons
          • Conditions on orders
          • Confidentiality of mail to and from legal representatives
          • Expiry of orders
          • Interstate warrants
          • Preparing the court report
          • Responding to subpoenas
          • Use of private information in court related documents
        • Structure
          • Legal process definitions and purpose
          • Structure of court system
        • Appeals
        • CMS Portal - advice
        • Family Drug Treatment Court - advice
        • Suppression orders for child protection clients
      • Out-of-home care
        • Care teams
        • Principles, roles and responsibilities for placement
        • Kinship placement
          • Kinship care assessment
          • Support of kinship carers
        • Voluntary placements
        • Contact
        • Placement changes
        • Participating in activities
        • Placement in a secure welfare service
        • Quality of care concerns
        • Cross border placements
        • Wards of the State and Forgotten Australians
        • Health
          • Administration of medication
          • Authorisation for CSOs or ACCOs to provide medical consent
          • Dental health services
        • Travel
          • Interstate and international travel
          • Passports - advice
        • Administration
          • Authorising carers
          • Financial allowances and resources
          • Insurance claims
        • Leaving care
        • Permanent care
        • Adoption
        • Better Futures - advice
        • Birth certificates - advice
        • Home Stretch - advice
        • Preparing a child for placement
        • Working with Children Clearances for kinship carers and usual adult household members - advice
      • Aboriginal children
        • Responding to Aboriginal children
        • Planning for Aboriginal children
        • Assessing kinship care for Aboriginal children
        • Placing Aboriginal children in out-of-home care
        • Cultural plans
        • Aboriginal child and family services
        • Permanent care for Aboriginal children
        • Aboriginal family-led decision making program
        • Changing the status of a child from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander - advice
        • Identifying Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander children - advice
        • Statement of Recognition Act - advice
      • Children in specific circumstances
        • Infant risk assessment and response decision - advice
        • High-risk youth
        • High-risk youth panels and schedules
        • SIDS and safe sleeping
        • Children in contact with sex offenders
        • Sexual exploitation
        • Dual order clients
        • Suicide and self harming
        • Child exclusion condition on family violence orders
        • Fire risk behaviours
        • Unaccompanied homeless children
        • Therapeutic treatment reports and orders
        • Possible contact to AHCPES
        • Children and young people who are not permanent residents of Australia.
        • Children in immigration detention
        • Children related to DHHS staff - advice
        • Children related to DHHS staff
        • Enhanced Bail Supervision and Support - Advice
        • Female genital mutilation - advice
        • Forced marriage - advice
        • Gender Identity and Gender Diverse Clients
        • Home environment check
        • Intensive Bail - advice
        • L17 Family Violence Portal Historical Search - advice
        • Undisclosed placements - advice
        • Youth control orders - advice
      • Critical incidents
        • Categorisation of offences
        • Missing persons report
        • Child found unattended at home
        • Death of current or former client
        • Publication of identifying details
        • Unidentified abandoned child
        • Client Incident Management System (CIMS) - Advice
        • Missing children and young people
        • Threats to kill a child, parent or carer - advice
      • Case allocation and transfers
        • AHCPES case transfers
        • Case allocation - advice
        • Interstate and New Zealand case transfers
      • Health, Medical and Disability
        • Consent for medical examination and treatment
        • Medical and forensic examinations
        • Health and wellbeing of child protection clients
        • Mental health assessments and treatment
        • Drug and alcohol assessments
        • Drug screens
        • Suspicious or unclear hospital admission or discharge
        • Disability and complex medical needs - advice
        • Immunisations
        • Medicinal cannabis
        • My Health Record and child protection
        • Young people with a cognitive disability who may require a guardian or administrator upon leaving care - advice
    • Forms and secure documents
    • Information sheets
      • First visit
        • First visit for young people
        • First visit for parents
        • When Child Protection Workers Visit - Easy Read
      • Contact
        • Contact for kinship carers
        • Contact for parents and guardians
        • Contact for people seeking contact with children in out-of-home care
        • Contact for contact supervisors
        • Contact for Parents and Guardians - Easy Read
      • Court
        • Children's Court for young people
        • Children's Court for parents
        • Children's Court (COVID-19) for Parents - Easy Read
        • Children's Court for Parents - Easy Read
      • Emergency care
        • Emergency care for young people
        • Emergency care for parents
        • Emergency care for providers
        • Emergency Care (Covid-19) for Parents - Easy Read
        • Emergency Care for Parents - Easy Read
      • Orders
        • Care by Secretary order
        • Family preservation order
        • Family reunification order
        • Interim accommodation order
        • Long term care order
        • Permanent care order
        • Temporary assessment order
      • Review of Child Protection decisions
        • Review of a child protection decision for young people
        • Review of a child protection decision for parents
        • Request for a review of a child protection decision form
        • Review of Child Protection Decision for Parents - Easy Read
        • Review of a decision made by Child Protection without a protection order - parents
        • Review of a decision made by Child Protection without a protection order - young people
      • Child sexual abuse information
        • Child sexual abuse information for parents
        • Child sexual abuse information for professionals
        • Child sexual abuse information for survivors
          • Child sexual abuse information It happened to me women survivors
          • Child sexual abuse information It happened to us men survivors
      • Privacy notices
        • Information for young people receiving child protection services
        • Information for parents regarding child protection services
        • Information for professionals regarding child protection services
      • Authorising carers
        • Information for young people re carer authorisation
        • Information for parents re carer authorisation
        • Information for carers re authorisation care by Secretary order and long-term care order
        • Information for education and child care providers re carer authorisation
        • Information for carers re authorisation IAO, FRO
        • Information for carers re standard authorisation
      • Permanent care
        • Permanent care
      • Birth certificates
        • Birth certificates
      • Changes to Children's Court orders
      • Child Link
      • Forced marriage
        • Forced marriage - information for carers
        • Forced marriage - information for parents
        • Forced marriage - information for young people
      • Health
        • AOD treatment initiative for family reunification - fact sheet for child protection practitioners
        • COVID-19 vaccinations for children and young people in care
        • Coronavirus (COVID-19) Fact Sheet for Secure Care Services
        • Drug screens - information sheet for parents
        • Health care consent for children in out-of-home care
        • Immunisation for children - information for parents
        • Immunisation for children - information for young people
        • Immunisation for children in out-of-home care - information for CPPs and CSO case managers
        • Immunisation for children in out-of-home care - information for carers
        • Immunisation for children in out-of-home care - information for immunisation providers
        • My Health Record and children in out-of-home care - information for carers
        • My Health Record and children in out-of-home care - information for parents
        • My Health Record and children in out-of-home care - information for young people 14 years and over
      • Historical abuse in care information sheet
      • Identifying Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander children
        • Identifying Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander children
      • Kinship care
        • Working with Children Clearance for kinship carers and household members - information sheet
      • Other languages
        • Arabic
        • Burmese
        • Cantonese (traditional Chinese)
        • Dari
        • Dinka
        • Mandarin (simplified Chinese)
        • Turkish
        • Vietnamese
    • Tools and checklists
      • Outreach kit checklist
      • Investigation planning checklist
      • Worker safety considerations
      • Child & family snapshot and genogram tool BICPM
      • Substantiation judgement matrix
      • Areas of concern
      • Case transfer checklist
      • Authorising carers checklist
      • Assessment tools
        • Analysis and risk assessment snapshot BICPM
        • Parental substance use assessment tool
        • Parental mental illness assessment tool
        • Parental intellectual disability assessment tool
        • Reunification assessment tool
        • Guidance Regarding the Assessment of Infants in Intake
      • Legal representation for children and families checklist
      • Court preparation checklist
      • Administering Children's Court orders summary table
      • Better Futures Flexible Funding form
      • Better Futures referral checklist
      • CRIS Child Protection guides
      • Case planning - what you need to know
      • Certain Category B and C Offences for consideration in approving an after hours kinship care placements
      • Child Protection Occupational Violence Risk Management Guide
      • Child Protection student placements
        • Student placement orientation checklist
        • Student task lists
      • Completing an Australian passport child application form
      • Counting time in out-of-home care
      • De-allocation checklist
      • Drug screen collection sites for Child Protection
      • Emergency care - Buddy Bags for children
      • Engaging with adults using family violence to reduce risk to children
      • Essential information categories
      • Genogram program user guide
      • Historical abuse in care - Guidelines
      • How Child Protection interacts with My Health Records
      • How to send an encrypted email in Outlook
      • Infant response decision tool
      • List of Information Sharing Entities (ISEs)
      • PCA Families brochure
      • SAFER and MARAM assessment tools
        • Family reflection tool
        • MARAM prompt tools
        • My views
        • SAFER infant risk assessment snapshot
        • SAFER risk assessment snapshot
      • Sexual exploitation information template process map
      • When Children Go Missing, Fact Sheet for Obtaining Warrants
    • Flowcharts
      • Child protection process
      • Case planning
      • Intake phase
      • Unborn child report
      • Investigation phase
      • Protective intervention phase
      • Protection order phase
      • Legal process
      • Placement process
      • LAC processes
      • CIMS and CRIS process map
      • Changing the status of a child from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
        • De-identification process during intake phase only
        • De-identification process during investigation, protective intervention, protection order or closure phase
      • Choosing the case plan permanency objective
      • Conciliation conference flowchart
      • Direction to parents to resume parental responsibility
      • Dispute resolution guidance – Intake and Operational Divisions
      • Family Violence Information Sharing decision trees
    • Protocols
      • Police, courts & legal services
        • Police overarching principles
        • Police Protocol
        • Police contacts
        • Police information exchange registered sex offenders
        • Family Court & Federal Circuit Court
        • Memorandum of Understanding with the Family Court
        • MOU between CP and VLA for matters at the Melbourne Children's Court
        • MOU between CP and VLA for matters at the Moorabbin Children's Court
        • Community Correctional Services
        • Living with mum (in prison) protocol
        • Restricted access prisoners protocol
        • Working with children check unit MOU
        • Legal Aid
        • Interstate warrants
        • Information Sharing Protocol between the Department of Health and Human Services, the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria and the Children’s Court of Victoria
      • Intra-DHHS
        • AHCPES
        • Housing
        • Youth Justice
      • Education & medical
        • Early childhood agreement
        • Education partnering agreement
        • Drug treatment services
        • Mental health
        • Royal Children's Hospital
        • RCH SCAN meetings
        • RCH discharge planning & case conferences
        • RCH placements
        • Information Sharing Protocol between the NDIA and Australian States and Territory Agencies
        • MOU between DET, DHHS, FSV, Catholic Education and Independent Schools Vic
      • Commonwealth
        • Commonwealth agencies
        • Centrelink
        • Medicare
        • Youth protocol
        • Child support agency
        • MOU children in immigration detention
      • VACCA
      • Family Services
      • Professionals' reporting guide
      • Crown Entertainment
      • International child protection
      • Interstate child protection
      • ACSASS program requirements
      • Family violence referral protocol
      • MOU with the Public Advocate
    • Service descriptions
      • Out-of-home care
        • Placement coordination unit
        • Looking After Children
        • Secure welfare service
        • Hurstbridge Farm
      • Courts and legal
        • Children's Court
        • Family Court and Federal Circuit Court
        • Magistrates' Court
        • Victorian Coroners Court
        • Victorian County Court
        • Supreme Court of Victoria
        • Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT)
        • Children's Court Clinic
        • Child Protection Litigation Office
        • Legal Services Branch
      • Education & medical services
        • Kindergartens
        • Individual education plans
        • Child development assessment services
        • Enhanced maternal and child health service
        • Child youth and adult mental health services
        • Victorian Forensic Paediatric Medical Service
        • Drug and alcohol assessment and treatment services
      • Support services
        • Use of interpreters
        • Homelessness support services
        • Parenting assessment services including PASDS
        • Family services including Child FIRST
        • Placement of children with mothers in prison
        • Family violence services including perpetrator programs
        • Finding Solutions family and youth mediation service
        • Relationship counselling
        • Grief counselling and grief and loss services
        • Sexual assault services including services for sexual offenders
        • Intensive case management service
        • Youth support services
        • Transition to independent living allowance
        • Services for victims of crime including VOCAT
        • Family Violence Child Protection Partnership
      • Multidisciplinary centres
        • Multidisciplinary centres
        • Multidisciplinary centres practice requirements
      • AHCPES and SOS
        • AHCPES and rural after hours service
        • Streetwork Outreach Service
        • Youth Justice Bail After-Hours Service
        • Rural After Hours (RAHS) operating guidelines
      • Enhanced Bail Supervision and Support - service description
    • Specialist resources
      • Family-led decision making
        • Practitioner guide for presenting information to FLDM/AFLDM
        • Meeting ground rules
        • AFLDM Convenor script
        • AFLDM Referral information for child protection practitioners
        • FLDM Convenor script
        • FLDM your personal information
        • FLDM/AFLDM referral form
      • Therapeutic treatment resources
        • TTO/TTPO Decision trees
        • Sexual abuse behaviour treatment service (SABTS) contacts
        • Therapeutic treatment board schedule
      • Early years science - brain development
      • Vulnerable babies, children and young people at risk of harm
      • Model litigants guidelines
      • Transporting children and families
      • Corrections fact sheet
      • Abuse and harm - legal and practice definitions
      • Child sexual exploitation
        • Child sexual exploitation practice guide for Child Protection
        • Missing from care: a literature review
      • Children at risk learning portal
      • Cultural planning for Aboriginal children
        • Cultural activities log
        • Cultural plan templates
        • Cultural plan timelines flowchart
        • Cultural plan tracker
        • Cultural planning - the new model
      • Culturally diverse children and families
        • Culturally diverse children and families - practice tools
        • Engaging with culturally diverse children and families
        • Visa types for newly arrived and culturally diverse families
      • Family violence
        • MARAM guides
        • Observable signs - identifying adults using family violence
      • Forced marriage - community pack
      • Framework for trauma-informed practice
      • Healthcare that counts framework
      • Kidsafe Victoria
      • National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
        • Children who may require accommodation outside the family home due to complex disability support needs - Guidance for child protection practitioners
        • Leaving care planning for young people eligible for the NDIS
        • Practice guidelines - NDIS and mainstream services
        • Practice guidelines for Child First, The Orange Door, Integrated Family Services, Child Protection and Out-of-Home Care
      • Out-of-home care toolbox
      • Permanency amendments overview
      • Permanent care manual
      • Placement coordination and placement planning
      • Stability planning and permanent care project report
  • Our Approach
    • SAFER children framework
      • SAFER children framework guide
    • Best interests case practice model
      • Best interests case practice summary guide
      • Infants and their families
      • Children and their families
      • Adolescents and their families
      • Children with problem sexual behaviours and their families
      • Adolescents with sexually abusive behaviours
      • Child development and trauma
        • Development trends 0-12 months
        • Development trends 1-3 years
        • Development trends 3-5 years
        • Development trends 5-7 years
        • Development trends 7-9 years
        • Development trends 9-12 years
        • Development trends 12-18 years
        • Child Development and trauma guide - Introduction
      • Cumulative harm
      • Families with multiple and complex needs
      • Working with families where an adult is violent
    • Information sharing
      • Information sharing in child protection practice
      • Information security
      • Breaches of privacy
      • Freedom of information
      • Privacy notices
        • Privacy statement for members of child protection high-risk panels
      • Child Information Sharing Scheme and Child Protection
      • Child Link - advice
      • Child Protection and digital platforms
      • Connect For Safety Child Protection record search - advice
      • Family Violence Information Sharing Scheme and Child Protection
      • Privacy legislation and Child Protection
    • Roles and responsibilities
      • Case recording
      • Consultation with specialist practitioners
      • Powers of the Secretary when the Secretary has parental responsibility
      • Charter for children in out-of-home care
      • Human rights and child protection
      • Complaints about inappropriate behaviour of legal practitioners
      • Charter Of Rights For Parents And Carers With Disabilities Involved With Child Protection In Victoria
      • Child Safe Standards
      • Client Incident Management System (CIMS)
      • Family Violence Information Sharing Scheme
      • Feedback – Compliments and Complaints
      • Reportable Conduct Scheme
    • Multi-disciplinary practice
      • Making effective referrals
      • Interagency collaboration
    • Community Education
      • Community Education
  • Our Workforce
    • Supervision
      • Professional supervision
      • Student placements
      • Supervision within child protection presentation
      • Effective supervision within child protection
      • Leading practice - frontline and middle managers
      • Resolving individual workload concerns for child protection practitioners
      • Child Protection professional supervision compliance
      • Child Protection supervision - How to guide
    • Staff safety and wellbeing
      • Child Protection Mental Health and Wellbeing Plan
      • Child Protection Wellbeing Program
      • Staff safety in the workplace
      • Supervising staff safety and wellbeing
    • Workload management
      • Area child protection workload review and monitoring panels
    • Delegations and decision making
      • Instrument of delegation and revocation
    • Learning and development
      • Child Protection capability framework
      • Learning and development for child protection staff
    • Operating model
      • Principles for outposted child protection practitioners
      • Workforce structure and roles
  • CMS Portal
  • Contact us
  • Practice Dictionary
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  • Policies and Procedures
    • Phases
      • Intake
        • Intake policy
        • Receiving, registering and classifying a report
        • Unborn child reports
        • Section 38 consultations
        • Child in contact with sex offender
        • Family Court, Federal Circuit Court and Magellan List
        • Referral from Children's Court - Criminal Division
        • Court report request - Family Division
        • Interstate requests
        • Hague Convention - Child Protection
        • Allegations of sexually abusive behaviour
        • SOS client contact
        • New allegations
        • Irreconcilable differences
        • Assessing and managing family violence in intake
        • Changing the status of a child from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander during intake phase
        • Conducting the intake risk assessment
        • Intake to manage permanent care order
      • Investigation
        • Investigation policy
        • Investigation plan
        • First visit
        • Completing the investigation following the first visit
        • Decision on outcome of investigation
        • Investigation of sexually abusive behaviour
        • Decision making after TTR investigation
        • Assessing and managing family violence during the investigation phase
        • Conducting the risk assessment
      • Protective intervention
        • Protective intervention policy
        • Protective intervention phase outcomes
        • Assessing and managing family violence during protective intervention phase
        • Case management in protective intervention
      • Protection order
        • Protection order policy
        • Case contracting
        • Case management
        • Directing a parent to resume full responsibility
        • Assessing and managing family violence during protection order phase
        • Concluding the protection order phase
        • Managing therapeutic treatment orders
      • Closure
        • Closure policy
        • Closing a case
        • Closing therapeutic treatment orders and therapeutic treatment placement orders
    • Case planning
      • Case planning policy
      • Case plan preparation and review following the making of a protection order
      • Enacting a case plan
      • Internal review of a decision following the making of a protection order
      • Case planning without a protection order
      • Client visit policy
      • Reviewing the risk assessment
    • Court
      • Applications by emergency care before a Bail Justice
      • Directions hearing
      • Applications by emergency care
      • Affidavits and statutory declarations
      • Initial court applications - by notice
      • Permanent care orders
      • Reporting back following a referral from the Criminal Division of the Children’s Court
      • Return of temporary assessment order
      • Temporary assessment order (without notice)
      • Withdrawing a protection application
      • Responding to subpoenas
      • Warrants
        • Cancelling a warrant or missing persons report
        • Interstate warrant
        • Warrants
      • Court procedure
        • Adjournments
        • Appeals
        • Dispensation of service
        • Gaol order
        • Service of documents
        • Witness summons
      • Family violence
        • Application for a family violence or personal safety intervention order on behalf of a child
        • Child exclusion condition on family violence orders
      • Breaches, variations, revocations and extensions
        • Applications to extend orders
        • Breach by notice
        • Breach of an order by emergency care or application for a new IAO by emergency care
        • Variations and revocations
      • Applying for a suppression order for a child protection client
      • CMS Portal - Procedure
      • Family Drug Treatment Court - procedure
      • Family reunification orders and an alcohol or drug treatment condition for parents
      • Information sharing with the Magistrates' Court and the Children's Court
    • Information sharing
      • Child Link - procedure
      • Child Link policy
      • Connect for Safety Child Protection record search - procedure
      • Information sharing policy
      • Compulsory disclosure
    • Out-of-home care
      • Care allowance
      • Care teams
      • Contact
      • Education planning
      • Interstate and international travel
      • Kinship care
      • Leaving care
      • Passports
      • Placing a child in out-of-home care
      • Voluntary placements
      • Secure welfare
        • Review of a decision to place at a secure welfare service
        • Secure welfare service placement
        • Secure welfare service planning meetings
        • Transport between court and a secure welfare service
        • When a secure welfare service is at or nearing capacity
      • Accessing Better Futures Flexible Funding - procedure
      • Applying for Home Stretch - procedure
      • Applying for a Medicare number for a child in care
      • Applying for a birth certificate - procedure
      • Applying for evidence of citizenship on behalf of a child
      • Authorising carers using the child specific authorisation
      • Discretionary endorsement for usual adult household members unable to hold a Working with Children Clearance - policy
      • Establishing and managing funds in the State Guardianship Fund
      • My Health Record and children in out-of-home care policy
      • My Health Record
      • Overnight stays
      • Procedure to seek endorsement for a household member unable to hold a Working with Children Clearance
      • Referral to Better Futures - procedure
      • Registering a child’s birth - procedure
      • Working with Children Clearance prohibition, suspension, revocation, interim exclusion notice, or exclusion notice - procedure
      • Working with Children Clearance, prohibition, suspension, revocation, interim exclusion and exclusion notice - policy
    • National police history checks
      • National police history checks policy
      • CSOs undertaking national police history checks
      • Contact with children placed in OoHC
      • National police history checks for worker safety
      • Placement approval where national police history check details are delayed
      • Undertaking a national police history check
      • Obtaining authorisation to request police checks
      • Undertaking an international police history check
    • Aboriginal children
      • Aboriginal children policy
      • Additional requirements for Aboriginal children
      • Case planning for Aboriginal children
      • Changing the status of a child from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
      • Cultural plans
      • Identifying Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander children
      • Statement of Recognition Act 2023 - Recognition Principles Guidance
      • Statement of Recognition Act 2023 Policy
    • Children in specific circumstances
      • Assessment of suitability for a youth control order
      • Child found unattended at home
      • Children in immigration detention
      • Enhanced Bail Supervision and Support – procedure
      • Female genital mutilation - procedure
      • Fire risk behaviours
      • Forced marriage - procedure
      • Gender diverse clients and recording gender identity - procedure
      • High-risk youth
      • High-risk youth panels and schedules
      • Infant risk assessment and response decision
      • Intensive bail
      • L17 Family Violence Portal Historical Search
      • Possible contact to AHCPES
      • SIDS safe sleeping assessment
      • Seeking assistance from SOS
      • Sexual exploitation
      • Undisclosed placements - procedure
      • Unidentified abandoned child
      • Youth control orders planning meetings
      • Children related to DHHS staff
    • Critical incidents
      • Allegations of harm to clients in care – Client Incident Management System (CIMS)
      • Client Incident Management System (CIMS) policy
      • Death of current or former client
      • Missing children and young people
      • Missing persons report
      • Publication of identifying details
      • Threats to kill a child, parent or carer
    • Case allocation and transfers
      • Case transfers policy
      • Interstate and New Zealand transfers
      • Monitoring and managing cases awaiting allocation
      • Transfers to and from the AHCPES
      • Transfers within and between divisions
    • Health, Medical and Disability
      • Case management: NDIS and children with a disability and/or complex medical needs
      • Consent for medical examination and treatment
      • Intake: NDIS and children with a disability and/or complex medical needs
      • Managing cases where medicinal cannabis is being used
      • Medical and forensic examinations
      • Requesting a drug screen
      • Young people with a cognitive disability who may require a guardian or administrator upon leaving care
  • Advice and Protocols
    • Advice
      • Intake
        • Intake phase
        • Receiving and processing reports
        • Re-reports
        • Consultation with community-based child and family welfare services
        • Unborn child reports
        • Case conferences
        • Family Court, Federal Circuit Court and Magellan List
        • Court report requests - Family Division
        • Referral from Children's Court - Criminal Division
        • Interstate requests
        • Malicious reports
        • Hague Convention
        • Irreconcilable differences
        • Mandatory reporting
        • Intake outcomes
        • Concluding intake
      • Investigation
        • Investigation phase
        • Investigation planning
        • Conducting the first visit
        • Joint visits with police
        • Interviewing without parental permission
        • Seeking information from other sources
        • Verifying orders
        • Temporary assessment orders
        • Immediate removal of a child
        • Substantiation
        • VARE
        • Court action
        • Genograms
        • Photographs
        • Investigation outcomes
        • Concluding investigation
      • Protective intervention
        • Protective intervention phase
        • Protective intervention outcomes
        • Concluding protective intervention
      • Protection order
        • Protection order phase
        • Case contracting
        • Compensation proceedings
        • Protection order outcomes
        • Concluding protection order phase
      • Closure
        • Closure phase
        • Closure tasks
        • Closure outcomes
      • Case planning
        • Case planning
        • Family reunification
        • Family-led decision making (FLDM) model
        • Internal review of decisions
        • VCAT review
        • Assessing and managing family violence in child protection - advice
        • Identifying and achieving the permanency objective
        • Request for, and provision of, a Statement of Reasons
        • Risk assessment - advice
        • Working with adult perpetrators of family violence
      • Court
        • Protection order descriptions
        • Preparation for court
          • Early legal advice
          • Legal aid
          • Legal representation for children
          • Secure welfare services transport
        • Hearings
          • Child attendance at court
          • Closed court
          • Conciliation conference addendum report guide
          • Conciliation conferences
          • Contested court hearings
          • Directions hearings
          • Guide for managing applications by emergency care before a Bail Justice
          • Negotiating a settlement
          • Placement in secure welfare services on s. 598 warrant
          • Roles & responsibilities in court proceedings
        • Legal processes
          • Access to court reports
          • Children's Court search warrants
          • Children's Court witness summons
          • Conditions on orders
          • Confidentiality of mail to and from legal representatives
          • Expiry of orders
          • Interstate warrants
          • Preparing the court report
          • Responding to subpoenas
          • Use of private information in court related documents
        • Structure
          • Legal process definitions and purpose
          • Structure of court system
        • Appeals
        • CMS Portal - advice
        • Family Drug Treatment Court - advice
        • Suppression orders for child protection clients
      • Out-of-home care
        • Care teams
        • Principles, roles and responsibilities for placement
        • Kinship placement
          • Kinship care assessment
          • Support of kinship carers
        • Voluntary placements
        • Contact
        • Placement changes
        • Participating in activities
        • Placement in a secure welfare service
        • Quality of care concerns
        • Cross border placements
        • Wards of the State and Forgotten Australians
        • Health
          • Administration of medication
          • Authorisation for CSOs or ACCOs to provide medical consent
          • Dental health services
        • Travel
          • Interstate and international travel
          • Passports - advice
        • Administration
          • Authorising carers
          • Financial allowances and resources
          • Insurance claims
        • Leaving care
        • Permanent care
        • Adoption
        • Better Futures - advice
        • Birth certificates - advice
        • Home Stretch - advice
        • Preparing a child for placement
        • Working with Children Clearances for kinship carers and usual adult household members - advice
      • Aboriginal children
        • Responding to Aboriginal children
        • Planning for Aboriginal children
        • Assessing kinship care for Aboriginal children
        • Placing Aboriginal children in out-of-home care
        • Cultural plans
        • Aboriginal child and family services
        • Permanent care for Aboriginal children
        • Aboriginal family-led decision making program
        • Changing the status of a child from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander - advice
        • Identifying Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander children - advice
        • Statement of Recognition Act - advice
      • Children in specific circumstances
        • Infant risk assessment and response decision - advice
        • High-risk youth
        • High-risk youth panels and schedules
        • SIDS and safe sleeping
        • Children in contact with sex offenders
        • Sexual exploitation
        • Dual order clients
        • Suicide and self harming
        • Child exclusion condition on family violence orders
        • Fire risk behaviours
        • Unaccompanied homeless children
        • Therapeutic treatment reports and orders
        • Possible contact to AHCPES
        • Children and young people who are not permanent residents of Australia.
        • Children in immigration detention
        • Children related to DHHS staff - advice
        • Children related to DHHS staff
        • Enhanced Bail Supervision and Support - Advice
        • Female genital mutilation - advice
        • Forced marriage - advice
        • Gender Identity and Gender Diverse Clients
        • Home environment check
        • Intensive Bail - advice
        • L17 Family Violence Portal Historical Search - advice
        • Undisclosed placements - advice
        • Youth control orders - advice
      • Critical incidents
        • Categorisation of offences
        • Missing persons report
        • Child found unattended at home
        • Death of current or former client
        • Publication of identifying details
        • Unidentified abandoned child
        • Client Incident Management System (CIMS) - Advice
        • Missing children and young people
        • Threats to kill a child, parent or carer - advice
      • Case allocation and transfers
        • AHCPES case transfers
        • Case allocation - advice
        • Interstate and New Zealand case transfers
      • Health, Medical and Disability
        • Consent for medical examination and treatment
        • Medical and forensic examinations
        • Health and wellbeing of child protection clients
        • Mental health assessments and treatment
        • Drug and alcohol assessments
        • Drug screens
        • Suspicious or unclear hospital admission or discharge
        • Disability and complex medical needs - advice
        • Immunisations
        • Medicinal cannabis
        • My Health Record and child protection
        • Young people with a cognitive disability who may require a guardian or administrator upon leaving care - advice
    • Forms and secure documents
    • Information sheets
      • First visit
        • First visit for young people
        • First visit for parents
        • When Child Protection Workers Visit - Easy Read
      • Contact
        • Contact for kinship carers
        • Contact for parents and guardians
        • Contact for people seeking contact with children in out-of-home care
        • Contact for contact supervisors
        • Contact for Parents and Guardians - Easy Read
      • Court
        • Children's Court for young people
        • Children's Court for parents
        • Children's Court (COVID-19) for Parents - Easy Read
        • Children's Court for Parents - Easy Read
      • Emergency care
        • Emergency care for young people
        • Emergency care for parents
        • Emergency care for providers
        • Emergency Care (Covid-19) for Parents - Easy Read
        • Emergency Care for Parents - Easy Read
      • Orders
        • Care by Secretary order
        • Family preservation order
        • Family reunification order
        • Interim accommodation order
        • Long term care order
        • Permanent care order
        • Temporary assessment order
      • Review of Child Protection decisions
        • Review of a child protection decision for young people
        • Review of a child protection decision for parents
        • Request for a review of a child protection decision form
        • Review of Child Protection Decision for Parents - Easy Read
        • Review of a decision made by Child Protection without a protection order - parents
        • Review of a decision made by Child Protection without a protection order - young people
      • Child sexual abuse information
        • Child sexual abuse information for parents
        • Child sexual abuse information for professionals
        • Child sexual abuse information for survivors
          • Child sexual abuse information It happened to me women survivors
          • Child sexual abuse information It happened to us men survivors
      • Privacy notices
        • Information for young people receiving child protection services
        • Information for parents regarding child protection services
        • Information for professionals regarding child protection services
      • Authorising carers
        • Information for young people re carer authorisation
        • Information for parents re carer authorisation
        • Information for carers re authorisation care by Secretary order and long-term care order
        • Information for education and child care providers re carer authorisation
        • Information for carers re authorisation IAO, FRO
        • Information for carers re standard authorisation
      • Permanent care
        • Permanent care
      • Birth certificates
        • Birth certificates
      • Changes to Children's Court orders
      • Child Link
      • Forced marriage
        • Forced marriage - information for carers
        • Forced marriage - information for parents
        • Forced marriage - information for young people
      • Health
        • AOD treatment initiative for family reunification - fact sheet for child protection practitioners
        • COVID-19 vaccinations for children and young people in care
        • Coronavirus (COVID-19) Fact Sheet for Secure Care Services
        • Drug screens - information sheet for parents
        • Health care consent for children in out-of-home care
        • Immunisation for children - information for parents
        • Immunisation for children - information for young people
        • Immunisation for children in out-of-home care - information for CPPs and CSO case managers
        • Immunisation for children in out-of-home care - information for carers
        • Immunisation for children in out-of-home care - information for immunisation providers
        • My Health Record and children in out-of-home care - information for carers
        • My Health Record and children in out-of-home care - information for parents
        • My Health Record and children in out-of-home care - information for young people 14 years and over
      • Historical abuse in care information sheet
      • Identifying Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander children
        • Identifying Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander children
      • Kinship care
        • Working with Children Clearance for kinship carers and household members - information sheet
      • Other languages
        • Arabic
        • Burmese
        • Cantonese (traditional Chinese)
        • Dari
        • Dinka
        • Mandarin (simplified Chinese)
        • Turkish
        • Vietnamese
    • Tools and checklists
      • Outreach kit checklist
      • Investigation planning checklist
      • Worker safety considerations
      • Child & family snapshot and genogram tool BICPM
      • Substantiation judgement matrix
      • Areas of concern
      • Case transfer checklist
      • Authorising carers checklist
      • Assessment tools
        • Analysis and risk assessment snapshot BICPM
        • Parental substance use assessment tool
        • Parental mental illness assessment tool
        • Parental intellectual disability assessment tool
        • Reunification assessment tool
        • Guidance Regarding the Assessment of Infants in Intake
      • Legal representation for children and families checklist
      • Court preparation checklist
      • Administering Children's Court orders summary table
      • Better Futures Flexible Funding form
      • Better Futures referral checklist
      • CRIS Child Protection guides
      • Case planning - what you need to know
      • Certain Category B and C Offences for consideration in approving an after hours kinship care placements
      • Child Protection Occupational Violence Risk Management Guide
      • Child Protection student placements
        • Student placement orientation checklist
        • Student task lists
      • Completing an Australian passport child application form
      • Counting time in out-of-home care
      • De-allocation checklist
      • Drug screen collection sites for Child Protection
      • Emergency care - Buddy Bags for children
      • Engaging with adults using family violence to reduce risk to children
      • Essential information categories
      • Genogram program user guide
      • Historical abuse in care - Guidelines
      • How Child Protection interacts with My Health Records
      • How to send an encrypted email in Outlook
      • Infant response decision tool
      • List of Information Sharing Entities (ISEs)
      • PCA Families brochure
      • SAFER and MARAM assessment tools
        • Family reflection tool
        • MARAM prompt tools
        • My views
        • SAFER infant risk assessment snapshot
        • SAFER risk assessment snapshot
      • Sexual exploitation information template process map
      • When Children Go Missing, Fact Sheet for Obtaining Warrants
    • Flowcharts
      • Child protection process
      • Case planning
      • Intake phase
      • Unborn child report
      • Investigation phase
      • Protective intervention phase
      • Protection order phase
      • Legal process
      • Placement process
      • LAC processes
      • CIMS and CRIS process map
      • Changing the status of a child from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
        • De-identification process during intake phase only
        • De-identification process during investigation, protective intervention, protection order or closure phase
      • Choosing the case plan permanency objective
      • Conciliation conference flowchart
      • Direction to parents to resume parental responsibility
      • Dispute resolution guidance – Intake and Operational Divisions
      • Family Violence Information Sharing decision trees
    • Protocols
      • Police, courts & legal services
        • Police overarching principles
        • Police Protocol
        • Police contacts
        • Police information exchange registered sex offenders
        • Family Court & Federal Circuit Court
        • Memorandum of Understanding with the Family Court
        • MOU between CP and VLA for matters at the Melbourne Children's Court
        • MOU between CP and VLA for matters at the Moorabbin Children's Court
        • Community Correctional Services
        • Living with mum (in prison) protocol
        • Restricted access prisoners protocol
        • Working with children check unit MOU
        • Legal Aid
        • Interstate warrants
        • Information Sharing Protocol between the Department of Health and Human Services, the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria and the Children’s Court of Victoria
      • Intra-DHHS
        • AHCPES
        • Housing
        • Youth Justice
      • Education & medical
        • Early childhood agreement
        • Education partnering agreement
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        • Mental health
        • Royal Children's Hospital
        • RCH SCAN meetings
        • RCH discharge planning & case conferences
        • RCH placements
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        • Commonwealth agencies
        • Centrelink
        • Medicare
        • Youth protocol
        • Child support agency
        • MOU children in immigration detention
      • VACCA
      • Family Services
      • Professionals' reporting guide
      • Crown Entertainment
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      • Interstate child protection
      • ACSASS program requirements
      • Family violence referral protocol
      • MOU with the Public Advocate
    • Service descriptions
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        • Hurstbridge Farm
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        • Supreme Court of Victoria
        • Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT)
        • Children's Court Clinic
        • Child Protection Litigation Office
        • Legal Services Branch
      • Education & medical services
        • Kindergartens
        • Individual education plans
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        • Enhanced maternal and child health service
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        • Victorian Forensic Paediatric Medical Service
        • Drug and alcohol assessment and treatment services
      • Support services
        • Use of interpreters
        • Homelessness support services
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        • Family services including Child FIRST
        • Placement of children with mothers in prison
        • Family violence services including perpetrator programs
        • Finding Solutions family and youth mediation service
        • Relationship counselling
        • Grief counselling and grief and loss services
        • Sexual assault services including services for sexual offenders
        • Intensive case management service
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        • Transition to independent living allowance
        • Services for victims of crime including VOCAT
        • Family Violence Child Protection Partnership
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        • Multidisciplinary centres practice requirements
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        • Rural After Hours (RAHS) operating guidelines
      • Enhanced Bail Supervision and Support - service description
    • Specialist resources
      • Family-led decision making
        • Practitioner guide for presenting information to FLDM/AFLDM
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        • AFLDM Convenor script
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        • FLDM your personal information
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        • Child sexual exploitation practice guide for Child Protection
        • Missing from care: a literature review
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        • Cultural plan tracker
        • Cultural planning - the new model
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        • Visa types for newly arrived and culturally diverse families
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        • MARAM guides
        • Observable signs - identifying adults using family violence
      • Forced marriage - community pack
      • Framework for trauma-informed practice
      • Healthcare that counts framework
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        • Children who may require accommodation outside the family home due to complex disability support needs - Guidance for child protection practitioners
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