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) 
  

• Guide to good corporate parenting - (What Makes the Difference?)

LA pledge to children and young people in care

•  Government framework for local authority pledge

• National Benchmarking forum - pledge template for local authorities developing their 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