Policies and Procedures
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Phases
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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
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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
- Protection order
- Closure
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Intake
- Case planning
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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
- Court procedure
- Family violence
- Breaches, variations, revocations and extensions
- Applying for a suppression order for a child protection client
- 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
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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
- Quality of care concerns
- Voluntary placements
- Secure welfare
- 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
- My Health Record and children in out-of-home care policy
- My Health Record
- Overnight stays
- Referral to Better Futures - procedure
- Registering a child’s birth - procedure
- Working with Children Checks prohibition, suspension or interim negative notice - policy
- Working with Children Checks prohibition, suspension or interim negative notice - procedure
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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
- Aboriginal children
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Children in specific circumstances
- Children related to DHHS staff
- Assessment of suitability for a youth control order
- Child found unattended at home
- Children in immigration detention
- 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
- Critical incidents
- Case allocation and transfers
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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