Contact with significant persons - Practice guide

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This is a guide for child protection practitioners which outlines practice considerations regarding contact between children and young people in care with significant persons other than birth parents.

The guidance sets out the definition of significant persons, how to sustain a child and young person’s sense of belonging and practice considerations when searching and arranging connection with significant persons.

Document ID 3162, version 1, 23 December 2025