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Corporate Parenting Responsibilities

PRACTICE EXAMPLES, TOOLS and RESOURCES 

1. CORPORATE PARENTING RESPONSIBILITIES 

1.1
Practice examples
Development of corporate parenting policy
Warwickshire corporate parenting policy development

 

1.1
Tools & resources
Corporate parenting policies and strategies
Warwickshire Corporate Parenting Policy 2006 to 2009 
Warwickshire CP Action Plan 
Portsmouth City Council Corporate Parenting Strategy
Doncaster Corporate Parenting Strategy
Redcar and Cleveland CP Policy


Leaving Care Policies
Surrey Leaving Care Policy


Corporate parenting guidance - national
DFES If this were my child – a councillor’s guide to being a good corporate parent
Putting Corporate Parenting into Practice: a Toolkit (National Children's Bureau)  


LA pledge to children and young people in care
 
Government framework for local authority pledge

 

1.2
Practice examples               
Role of local authority staff, members and councillors
Middlesbrough - Corporate parenting role of staff and councillors   

 

1.3
Practice examples               
Placement continuity and stability                 
Hull - Continuing care placements 

1.3
Tools & resources
Placement continuity and stability strategies
Hull CC - Payments to supported lodging providers
Redcar and Cleveland - Placement Stability Plan


1.4
Practice examples              
Keeping in touch
Tower Hamlets - Contact provision  

 

1.4
Tools & resources
Keeping in touch policies and procedures
Surrey - Keeping in touch Policy
Tower Hamlets – Contact Policy 

 

1.5
Practice examples               
Lead professional support and advocacy for young people and building networks                         
Tower Hamlets - Lead professional role 

 

1.5
Tools & resources
Lead professional job description - Not yet available 


1.6
Tools & resources
Training materials – corporate parent (CP) role of staff members & councillors -
Not yet available

 

1.7
Tools & resources
Assessment of staff implementation of corporate parenting duties, young people’s assessment of services and quality improvement tools.
Corporate parenting quality improvement tool
Middlesbrough Young People’s Exit Interview
Hull – YPSS 60 Second Survey on services
Life in Care Exit Interview – Yorkshire Humberside and NE Region  
Quality Protects - Self Assessment tool