SOCIAL CARE AND EARLY HELP CASE MANAGEMENT AND TRANSFER

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COMUNICADO 0032011 BANCO DE PREVISIÓN SOCIAL ASESORÍA TRIBUTARIA
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Transfer meetings - Social Care units and Locality teams

Social Care and Early Help Case Management and Transfer Meetings

Terms of Reference

Purpose is to create a multidisciplinary problem solving forum to explore case management and case transfers:

Ensure case transfer are seamless and in the child/family’s best interest
Ensure cases ready for transfer are explored systemically and allocated correctly
To problem solve work concerning families that are being jointly worked by agencies attending the meeting using a Signs of Safety approach.
Raise concerns about specific cases – particularly those at risk of being children looked after or meeting threshold for social care
To identify gaps in service provision and seek solutions within and beyond the organisation
To consider lessons learned – what could we do different to improve outcomes for children and improve our practice?

Frequency and geographical coverage

Meetings to be held every week for 1 hour

Membership

Team Managers from Duty and Long Term Team and Early Help Manager

Chairing arrangements

Rotating Chair

Minute taking arrangements

Action notes taken by meeting participants on a rota basis, to be sent to Chair who will circulate and include HoS’s.

Roles and responsibilities

Chair: To facilitate meeting and confirm actions

All: Will email the Chair 2 days prior to meeting with any discussion they would like to bring to the meeting (agenda outlined) and alert of names/ID of any cases they would like to discuss.

Chair: Will compile the agenda following the above and circulate before the meeting and this will include identified cases.

All: Will ensure this meeting is prioritised and attendance is consistent. Business support to put recurring appointment and room in calendars

All Meeting participants:

To research their involvement with families identified by checking databases and asking for updates from with practitioners in their teams
To share information accessed about the case at the meeting
To partake and support discussions sharing learning and knowledge

Evaluation

Annual observation by Heads of Service: Social Care and Early Help

Case auditing of a dip sample of cases discussed as part of service auditing arrangements

Agenda template and Minute Template below to enable consistency and purpose of the meeting

Agenda

Social Care and Early Help Case Management and Transfer Meetings

DATE:________________

Agenda

Attendance and Apologise

Action outstanding from previous meeting
Case discussions (cases to be sent to TM and added 2 days before meeting)

Case Transfers from Duty to LTT
Transfers from Duty and LLT to EH
Step up to Duty from EH
Co working cases

Issues for resolution or areas of good practice identified.
AOB

Rutland Children’s Services

Social Care and Early Help Case Management and Transfer Meetings

Date:

1	Apologies / Present	Actions/WHO

2	Actions for previous meeting

3	Case discussions
	a) b) c)
4	Issues or good practice…

5	AOB

6

Next meeting:

Copy TMs and HOS

Completed March 2014 and updated September 2016

COMUNICADO 0212010 BANCO DE PREVISIÓN SOCIAL ASESORÍA TRIBUTARIA
4ĮSAKYMAI IR POTVARKIAI LIETUVOS RESPUBLIKOS SOCIALINĖS APSAUGOS
DATE DIFSOCIAL SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP RE

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