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Two wee boys meet up on Boxing Day.
"So, what did you get, then?"
"I got Monopoly, and a book token, and an orange."
"Oh, right. I got a bike, and an Xbox, and an iPad, and a TV, and a blue-ray player, and…"
"Gosh. Wish I had cancer."
It seems that all you need to do to become the centre of attention at Christmas is to contract a life-threatening medical condition. If I'd realised, I'd have done this years ago.
I'm not talking about the presents haul. That was good, but I'm a middle-aged man; there isn't much anyone can buy me. I can only use so many socks, I don't wear aftershave, and if you try to give me books or music, chances are it'll be wrong or I'll already have it. Although if anyone does come across a cure for glioblastoma in the sales, snap it up, I'll pay you back.
I mean instead a new sense of social attention: my drinking calendar filled fast this festive, everyone seems to want to take me to the pub. Which is very nice of them, although also slightly disturbing in that there is a sensation of a box being ticked, just in case I'm not about next Christmas. Still, since I fully plan to be, I hope to take full advantage of people's Yuletide largesse then, too. And in 2013. And 2014. And for as long as my brain and liver hold out, really.
But it has been good to get out, because I didn't really get any kind of festive feeling this year until the day itself was almost upon me, so I'm sort of catching up. Advent opened along with the hole in the side of my head, continued with four days in hospital, moved on to the grim news about the nature of my ailment, and closed with continual trips in and out of various hospitals. So the whole period just hasn't been very Christmassy.
Obviously, I was aware Christmas was coming. I could see that all the TV series I had been watching were coming to an end. I did my Christmas shopping, insofar as I logged onto Amazon and went "I want that one!" until my credit card melted. I even got the tree down off the roof (six years old and still alive, despite hurricanes, barbecues and neighbours using its pot as a base from which to launch their fireworks) and put lights round it. I just didn't feel festive, I wasn't getting that sense of impending occasion; possibly because people seemed to want to take so much of my blood for various and nefarious purposes - I'm convinced the Beatson is keeping a bonsai vampire out the back somewhere - and there's something really not that jolly about being punctured and drained on a regular basis.
Not that I particularly missed the build-up. I quite enjoy the festive period itself - the big family feed, the drinks with friends I don't see very often, the Doctor Who Christmas Special - but the approach is pretty horrible. I don't give a toss about the supposed true meaning of Advent (enforced migration, astrology and child genocide, apparently) but I find its commercial replacement equally distasteful: I can't understand how all those people can be allowed driving licences when they seem to find walking around a shopping centre so difficult; the music in shops and pubs (and hospital wards, incidentally) becomes more unpleasant than usual; people seem to expect me to care about the X Factor and to understand why I should (I did take a passing interest in the denouement of Strictly Come Dancing, but only while there was a faint hope of hearing the sweet sound of Jason Donovan's cruciate ligament popping).
Still, that's all over and we're into the nice comfortable slot between the holidays. Unfortunately, my social whirl is punctuated by the first round of the vaccine trial I'm taking part in, which means spending most of my daylight hours sitting about in hospital, and being quite knackered when I go out at night.
This first stage of the trial is an intensive three-day set of injections, after which it slows down to a less frequent event, just in time for the daily chemo and radiation fest to kick-off. So Wednesday began with the now-traditional blood-letting and then two intradermal injections, followed by four hours of sitting around waiting for me to not go into anaphylactic shock. Thursday and today have involved the same, although they seem to have enough blood for now, so that part hasn't been repeated. Although I daresay the nano-Nosferatu will be peckish again soon enough.
The injections are quite painful, although briefly so. A needle is shoved between the layers of skin in my thigh and some kind of immune-system booster is squirted in to stretch the layers apart and form an immensely itchy artificial blister, followed by the same process with the vaccine itself ten minutes later in exactly the same place. Subsequent days' injections also go into the same hole, so each visit is cumulatively more uncomfortable. They've obviously realised that with my recent extensive experience I'm getting used to feeling a prick, so they've come up with this new method to keep me on my toes.
Still, that's it all over until 2012. As I write this I'm sitting in the Clinical Trials Unit at the Beatson waiting to be told I can go home. I'll be back next week, though: first on Wednesday for a lengthy MRI at the Southern and a quick jaunt under the river back to the Beatson for what's known as pre-verification, which I think involves making sure the orfit mask still fits and some more x-rays; and then on Thursday again to kick off on the harsh chemicals and cosmic rays, plus another round of thigh-stabbing just for luck.
But until then I have a full social diary, a very nice Christmas bottle of Isle of Jura Superstition, and 50 Years of Private Eye to keep me occupied. And I'm going to a Hogmanay barbecue at a friend's house, so the horrors of celebrating Amateur Night in a public place will be spared me.
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April 27, 2012
Something a bit different - 3KCBWDAY5
Το θέμα σήμερα είναι να κάνουμε κάτι διαφορετικό. Όπως και πέρυσι, αποφάσισα να γράψω ένα ποίημα, το οποίο έχει ομοιοκαταληξία και δυστυχώς δεν μεταφράζεται. Από αύριο, οι αναρτήσεις μου θα συνεχίσουν κανονικά και στις δύο γλώσσες. Η εβδομάδα blogging για το πλέξιμο συνεχίζεται μέχρι και την Κυριακή, οπότε ελπίζω να ξαναπεράσετε μια βόλτα από δω το σαββατοκύριακο!
After midnight
A knitter is up, late at night
the end of a difficult sweater in sight.
She says, at a quarter to one,
"A few more rows and I'll be done!"
Her doubts set in when the sleeves will not.
She goes into the kitchen and eats some cake
then she tries to fix her mistake.
It doesn't work and at a quarter to two
she gives up and looks for something to do.
It's late and she's tired, she should go to bed
but a little idea just popped into her head.
"I can look at some patterns, just to calm down"
soon a smile replaces her frown.
She gets lots of ideas about things she can make
and dreams of cardigans, as she eats the whole cake.
Suddenly she's browsing her favorite shop
looking for yarn to make a new top.
She'll knit gloves and mittens and a new hat
then sweaters for everyone, even the cat.
She should resist, but it's very hard;
soon she's holding her credit card.
Just before she clicks the button to buy
some yarn from her stash catches her eye.
There's a lot of yarn there, ready to use
so much that she won't even be able to choose.
Then she sees her poor sweater too
and has another idea about what she can do.
A few days later
she's wearing her sweater
when the postman arrives with something
and it isn't a letter.
As she puts her new, self-striping yarn in the stash
she's thankful she didn't spend all of her cash.
But one skein of sock yarn?
It's hard to say no...
As anyone knitting after midnight will know.
To see all the amazing, creative and fun posts from the fifth day of the Knitting and Crochet Blog Week, Google the tag 3KCBWDAY5!
15 comments:
That was brilliant, had a good laugh, I guess we have all been there and totally understand!ReplyDelete
Wow, that was great! It felt so good to read a poem about our - knitters' joys and worries :) You're really talented in writing poetry too!ReplyDelete
I think we have all been there, especially when it comes to sock yarn LOLReplyDelete
That is fantastic! I can neer resist sock yarn either :)ReplyDelete
Great poem! You are so talented.ReplyDelete
Lovely poem! Yes, it is hard to say No to knitting...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 27, 2012 at 5:37 PM
Haha, who can say no to a skein of sock yarn! This was a great poem. Very well written and kept my attention. Great job.ReplyDelete
Διαβάζω τις αναρτήσεις σου κάθε μέρα με πολύ ενδιαφέρον και το σημερινό ποιημα ήταν το κάτι άλλο!!! Αν και αρχάρια στο πλεξιμο, κάπου μέσα του βρήκα και ένα κομματι από μένα!ReplyDelete
That is a great poemReplyDelete
Awesome poem!ReplyDelete
Poetry does indeed imitate life! I loved reading this. So witty and great rhyming.ReplyDelete
What a great poem! So I guess I'm not the only one staying up late to crochet or knit :).ReplyDelete
What an awesome poem! Loved it.ReplyDelete


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Several Muslim-American non-profit and relief organizations joined forces to deliver 110,000 bottles of water to Flint residents last week. Volunteers distributed water as well as helped at a local food bank.
"As Muslims it is our religious and civic responsibility to help our neighbors," Amina Iqbal, director of operations of the non-profit social justice organization Michigan Muslim Community Council (MMCC), told NBC News. "The Flint community needs us, and MMCC in conjunction with our various partners are helping by providing them with clean drinking water, filters, educational material related to the hazardous water, offering free lead testing, and raising money to assist the Flint communities."
According to a statement from the MMCC, providing water is one of the Muslim faith's highest forms of charity.
Dr. Aziza Askari, representative for the Michigan chapter of the Who is Hussain? said, "We saw what needed to be done and we decided to do it. We reached out to schools, neighbors, friends, mosques, anyone and everyone to help us by donating a case of water, or money towards a case."


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with AV vendors now saying "it's the customer;s choice whether to tick the registry box or not" as well.
with AV vendors now saying "it's the customer;s choice whether to tick the registry box or not" as well.
fuck those guys seriously.
Please don't teach me what to do with my pc.
If I'm not mistaken, microcode updates will be/is available from Intel and AMD. Will those be available through normal Windows/Linux/OSX update channels, or do you have to find them on the CPU manufacturers sites?
Linux doesn't need bios microcode updates you can just patch the kernel.
Windows can and has(in the past) rolled out microcode updates via windows updates alltough I'm not sure why they won't in this case.
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Last edited by Stoffl; January 12 2018 at 07:16:31 PM.
Linux does indeed directly apply firmware updates for CPUs.
AMD sound like they're doing likewise https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/...ulnerabilities
Intel is unable to deny some issues caused by their fix to the original issues.
One thing to keep in mind when talking about "rolling out micorcode patch": this isn't your normal OS/app patch, which gets applied once and then it's done (~a bunch of faulty files gets repalced with fixed ones). A microcode patch is non-persistant and is - applied/run on every machine boot by the OS.
just a small, subsidiary source of amusement resulting from the Hawaiian false alarm,
~ and now for something completely different,
Trisis has mistakenly been released on the open internet
An elite, government authored cyberweapon has been sitting online in public view for nearly anyone to copy since Dec. 22 because multinational energy technology company Schneider Electric mistakenly posted a sensitive computer file to VirusTotal, three sources familiar with the matter told CyberScoop.
Schneider Electric obtained the file in question, titled "Library.zip," after collecting evidence during a data breach investigation in the Middle East that focused on an incident at an oil and gas refinery. Library.zip holds the backbone of a dangerous malware framework known as "Trisis" or "Triton," according to research by U.S. cybersecurity companies Dragos Inc. and FireEye.
Red Hat just pulled their Spectre microcode updates, citing system instability and telling anyone who wants them to get them from the hardware manufacturer.
The fun continues.
Anecdotal evidence puts Meltdown/Spectre updated machines into the "holy shit" am I running a miner malware territory.
Literally tens of acquaintances are pestering me what to do. Slowdowns include issues with opening apps, opening more than a few browser tabs, general directory navigation and so on.
Given the fact my desktop is still sidelined from a few hardware failures I can't test this just yet, but I'll make sure to backup all the stuff before installing any updates or microcode stuff.
Any similar experiences?
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Guns make the news, science doesn't.
I've noticed zero performance difference on my main machine, even running slack, chrome with 10+ tabs, Firefox and various other applications. I use this 10+ hours a day so would have expected to see some performance hit.
Buy a Raspberry Pi 3
Become Henry David Thoreau reborn.
~ more seriously, I am curious as to what, if anything, I'll notice once I'm fully patched up myself since I'm only working with an Athlon 5350 to begin with (4 x 2.05 GHz) - not exactly a beast with big performance margins by which to afford any losses.
eh, we'll see
The widely used ZFS file system software is slowed down in both read IOPS and throughput by Intel CPU microcode fixes for the Spectre processor design flaws, one set of numbers suggests.
Thanks for the feedback guys, I don't think it's something they were looking for tbh.
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Guns make the news, science doesn't.
Also forgot about ZFS, that will be p awful.
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I've noticed no change over 6 machines all with intel CPUs.
Originally Posted by Paul Mason
From various internet articles/comments by both users and vendors: it depends upon your usage. Generally (disk) I/O and networking seems to be hit hard. The faster the discs (SSD), the more notable the performance lack is. So users with SATA drives won't notice a difference, because SATA itself is slower than the patch performance loss.
Games/graphics seem basically unaffected. My uneducated guess is that here the GPU does most of the work and therefore is mostly unaffected from the patch, which targets CPU behavior.


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I'm extremely fortunate in that my English grammar and my spelling often sucks at times, however I know naturally how best to connect with people and incite them to do something. Words that other struggle to come up with, I instinctively use because with content marketing, it's more often than not the words we use that hold the power to influence others.
You know that words can inspire, incite action, arouse curiosity and persuade and motivate people to do things, such as make purchases or subscribe to your email list. Knowing these words and phrases and having the knowledge on how best to use them can make a significant difference, within the content you create.
You might wonder why the content you create cannot just educate and inform and why you need to use persuasive techniques in your content. It's because the content you create will be the only thing the majority of your audience actually read, watch or listen to. And if you can persuade them in your content then your conversion rates and click-through rates will be much better. And as you know, better conversions means more customers which means more profits.
Let's have a look at a few powerful and persuasive words and phrases which you can start to include in your content creation process.
Common Power Words
"You" is one of the most important words you can use in your content. It immediately bonds your audience to you. It creates a connection, look at the following example:
- Business owners benefit when they use persuasive words in their content.
- You benefit when you use persuasive words in your content.
The first sentence is clear but it separates the person reading it from the page. It talks about "business owners" as a group rather than talking to the individual person.
Whenever you ask someone to do you a favor, do you simply ask or do you include a reason? If you give a reason for asking for the favor, you're more likely to secure your favor. In a similar fashion you might like to consider using "because" occasionally when you're pointing out features and benefits of a product or service.
"New" is a word people like because many people see it as representing something new and cutting edge, the mobile phone industry is built on this. Your audience is also seeking "new" online and when "new" is used in your headlines and in the body of your content, it helps grab people's attention and persuade action. For example, "new" information, "new" changes, "new" benefits, a "new" price, product or service, a "new" never before seen …
Emotional Words and Phrases Persuade
Words that incite emotion are the most powerful persuasive words, as we all emotional by nature. This is particularly true when they are used in the opening introduction and later within the content as an explanation or list of benefits. I've included a few powerful emotional trigger type words for you to consider using when creating your content. You should keep in mind that they should match the tone and purpose of your content.
- Helpless
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- Surrender
- Rave
- Deadline
- Limited
- Easy
- Boost
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- Destiny
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- Had Enough?
- Never Again…
- Conspiracy
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And of course let's not forget the words, "Free," "Guaranteed," and "Convenient." When you're using persuasive words, the real trick is to use them sparingly and strategically. Too many and your content will sound like a forced sales page and no one wants that. With just the right amount of persuasive words in tactical locations, you can see your content's conversion rates improve.


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Why advertise online?
Cost comparison of traditional media vs online marketing:
Traditional media
3 months on 50 Taxis = $25,000
1 colour ad on the Straits Times = $18,000
30 secs commercial on Singapore Tonight= $3,500
Google Adwords = Set a daily budget so you stay within your monthly budget.
Pay per click (from $0.02) means you only pay when users click on your ads.
Louder is NOT better. You want to target only interested customers. Traditional media broadcast messages to a general audience, while Google ads are only shown to people who indicate interest in a particular topic by keying in their search terms.
This makes ads relevant and useful in the same way as natural search results. This is highly effective as you only show your ads to people at the exact time they show interest in your products, hence making the most use of your marketing investment.
With a TV/newspaper ad, you can only estimate/guess the number of interested customers your ads reach. ROI can be measured more accurately if customers need to specify something unique from the ad e.g. code to get the discount, which requires your store staff to measure diligently.
With Google Adwords you can track clicks to your website, number of customers who sent email to you, time on your site (measure interest level) and the online sales from your online ads.
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We had a wonderful day of getting to know each other, sharing stories and starting to learn the routines of grade 3. One of the activities we did, had each child contribute to a poster that had a question or fill-in-the-blank sentence. There were definitely some interesting responses!
I also shared the "What Inspires You?" Wonderopolis post with the students. I encouraged them to be curious and ask questions. We've started a Wonder Wall in our classroom where students can post things that they are wondering about.
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Writing about your practice
At today's writing workshop we discussed how a text should be seductive – it should get your attention somehow from the very beginning. And the best way to do this is to be clear about who you are, or what your project is, and what you and your work can offer. Believe in your work and your ideas, and give them the lucid, calm description they deserve.
Here are the key points we discussed at the beginning of the meeting, plus some more ideas that came up during our discussion. Thank you to everyone who came and shared their thoughts and experiences on professional writing.
- Clarity is important! Cut long sentences, never use five words where you could use one or two, and try reading draft versions out loud to yourself to check that they sound human
- People are busy – don't make someone read five paragraphs before they get to the main point, and don't use email attachments if you can copy the text into the body of a message
- Read other people's writing with a critical eye – what works, what doesn't? What made you keep reading and what made you stop? Apply this knowledge to your own writing
- Make a list of what your basic points are before you start (in your head or on paper) and check them off so you can be sure you've included everything
- Don't rely on spell-check; get someone else to do a final read-through
- Same thing goes if the language you're writing in isn't your first language – unless you're totally fluent, get a native speaker to check it over
- If you start with something interesting – an arresting quote, an interesting fact about your product, etc – people are more likely to read on
- Tailor your writing for different platforms – email, print, blogs, Facebook
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- Alternatively, if you have a shorter word count, avoid the temptation to compress everything in there – not every single detail of your project is interesting to every audience, just like you wouldn't start every conversation by explaining what you had for breakfast and so on
- If you're dyslexic or find writing uninspiring, try recording yourself speaking about your work and transcribe or take notes from what you've said
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- Don't use overly complex language for the sake of it, let your ideas shine through
- What are the key features of the work, or of the visualisation of the project? The text should highlight the same features
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Lavasa Corporation Ltd., the real estate development arm of Hindustan Corporation Company Ltd., on Wednesday, said the Maharashtra government's decision to revoke its Special Planning Authority (SPA) status, will be beneficial for the company.
Lavasa Special Planning Authority worked as per the rules and regulations laid down by the Maharashtra government and was subject to their supervision. This will now be done by the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA).Lavasa's Statement
"This brings Lavasa into the Pune Metropolitan area and the company will benefit from the broader urban development plan of the region," it said.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had earlier directed the PMRDA to extend its jurisdiction to Lavasa, a private hill city developed by HCC near Pune.
"The company looks forward to closely working with the PMRDA and in close co-operation with the government in developing the Lavasa hill city," it said.
Lavasa Corporation, which got the Special Planning Authority status in June 2008, faced criticism from social activists, alleging that it flouted environment norms.
The firm and its stakeholders have made a substantial investment in the city's development which will ultimately see the creation of 1,00,000 permanent new jobs, the company said.
The 18 villages that have been declared under the Hill Station Regulation Act also have a stake in the development of Lavasa, it said.
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It is my Sleep Mask, and though it's a bit hole-y, it is able to do it's job quite well. :D
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This chapter provides the steps for how to undertake a strategy discussion / meeting and how to conduct Section 47 Enquires.
This chapter was updated in December 2018 to clarify that where there are concerns about the risk of Fabricated and Induced Illness (FII) the strategy discussion should be used to ensure there is a collective understanding of the risk and agree an appropriate strategy to engage the family that does not place the child at increased risk.
- Duty to Conduct Section 47 Enquiries
- Immediate Protection
- Section 47 Thresholds and the Multi Agency Assessment
- Strategy Discussion / Meeting
- The Section 47 Enquiry
- Single Agency and Joint Agency Section 47 Enquiries
- Involving Children, Parents and Other Significant Family Members
- Child Protection Medical Assessments
- Consent to Examination and Treatment
- Achieving Best Evidence Interviews
- The Outcome of Section 47 Enquiries
- Timescales for Section 47 Enquiries
- Recording
- Further Information
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1. Duty to Conduct Section 47 Enquiries
When the local authority social worker receives a referral and information has been gathered during an assessment (which may have been very brief), in the course of which a concern arises that a child maybe suffering, or likely to suffer, significant harm, the local authority is required by Section 47 of the Children Act 1989 to make enquiries. The purpose of this multi agency enquiry and assessment is to enable the agencies to decide whether any action should be taken to safeguard and promote the welfare of the child. Any decision to initiate an enquiry under Section 47 must be taken following a Strategy Meeting/Discussion.
Responsibility for undertaking Section 47 enquiries lies with the Local Authority Children's social care in whose area the child lives or is found. 'Found' means the physical location where the child suffers the incident of harm or neglect (or is identified as likely to suffer harm or neglect), e.g. nursery or school, boarding school, hospital, one-off event, such as a festival, holiday home or outing or where a privately fostered or looked after child is living with their carers. For the purposes of these procedures the Children's social care area in which the child lives, is called the 'home authority' and the Local Authority Children's social care in which the child is found is the child's 'host authority'.
Multi agency information checks:
The social worker together with their manager must decide at what point and whether to seek parental permission to undertake multi-agency checks. If the manager decides not to seek permission, they must record the reasons why, for example it may:
- Be prejudicial to the child's welfare;
- Have serious concern about the behaviours of the adult;
- Have serious concern that the child would be exposed to immediate risk of harm.
Where permission is sought from parents and carers and denied, the manager must determine whether to proceed, and record the reasons for the decision they make. The attitude of parents and carers, particularly any given rationale for denial of permission, should inform assessment of risk and the need to undertake an assessment under section 47.
Each agency has a duty to assist and provide information in support of child protection enquiries. When requested to do so by Children's social care, professionals from other parts of the local authority such as housing, schools and those in health organisations have a duty to cooperate under Section 27 of the Children Act 1989 by assisting the local authority in carrying out its Children's social care functions. The social worker must contact the other agencies involved with the child to inform them that a child protection enquiry has been initiated and to seek their views. The checks should be undertaken directly with involved professionals and not through messages with intermediaries. The relevant agency should be informed of the reason for the enquiry, whether or not parental consent has been obtained and asked for their assessment of the child in the light of information presented.
See Information Sharing Procedure.
2. Immediate Protection
Where there is a risk to the life of a child or the possibility of serious immediate harm, an agency with statutory child protection powers (the police, Children's social care and the NSPCC) should act quickly to secure the immediate safety of the child.
When considering whether emergency action is required, an agency should always consider whether action is also required to safeguard and promote the welfare of other children in the same household (e.g. siblings), the household of an alleged perpetrator, or elsewhere.
Planned emergency action will normally take place following an immediate Strategy Discussion/Meeting between police, children's social care, health professionals and other agencies as appropriate.
If it is necessary to remove a child from their home, a local authority must, wherever possible and unless a child's safety is otherwise at immediate risk, apply for an Emergency Protection Order (EPO).
Police Powers of Protection should only be used in exceptional circumstances where there is insufficient time to seek an EPO or for reasons relating to the immediate safety of the child. It should be noted that such powers can last at most 72 hours but in most circumstances will only be in effect until the first working day when the local authority can make an application to court for an appropriate Order (usually an Emergency Protection Order).
3. Section 47 Thresholds and the Multi Agency Assessment
A Section 47 Enquiry must always be commenced immediately following a Strategy Discussion/Meeting when:
- There is reasonable cause to suspect that a child is suffering or likely to suffer significant harm in the form of physical, sexual, emotional abuse or neglect;
- Following an EPO or the use of Police Powers of protection is initiated.
The threshold criteria for a Section 47 Enquiry may be identified during an early assessment or it may become apparent at the point of referral, during multi-agency checks or in the course of a multi agency assessment.
Local authority social workers have a statutory duty to lead enquiries under Section 47 of the Children Act 1989. The police, health professionals, teachers and other relevant professionals should support them in undertaking the enquiries.
A multi agency assessment (see Assessment Procedure) is the means by which Section 47 Enquiries are carried out. The assessment will have commenced at the point of receipt of referral and it must continue whenever the criteria for Section 47 Enquiries are satisfied. The conclusions and recommendations of the Section 47 Enquiry should inform the assessment which must be completed within 45 working days of the date when the referral was received (see Section 12, Timescales for Section 47 Enquiries for timescales from strategy discussion to Initial Child Protection Conference).
The enquiries and assessment should always involve separate interviews with the child and, in the majority of cases, the parents, and the observation of interaction between the parent and child. This will include interviews and observations of parents, any other carers, the partners of the parents and assessment of any other adults identified to be living in or frequently in the child's home.
4. Strategy Discussion / Meeting
Whenever there is reasonable cause to suspect that a child is suffering, or is likely to suffer, significant harm, there should be a strategy discussion/meeting. The strategy discussion/meeting should be co-ordinated and chaired by a Children's social care manager.
The strategy discussion/meeting should involve Children's social care and the police, health professionals involved with the child and other bodies as appropriate (for example, children's centre/school and, in particular, any referring agency). In the case of a pre-birth strategy discussion/meeting this should involve the midwifery services.
Professionals participating in strategy discussions/meetings must have all their agency's information relating to the child available to be able to contribute to the discussion/meeting, and must be sufficiently senior to make decisions on behalf of their agencies.
In some circumstances strategy discussions by telephone may be adequate to plan an enquiry and must include the agencies directly involved with the child. For telephone strategy discussions, all agencies should make a record of the outcome of the telephone discussion and actions agreed at the time. The record of the notes and decisions authorised by the Children's social care manager should be circulated as soon as practicable to all parties to the discussion.
Some examples of circumstances where a strategy discussion/meeting should be considered:
- Any new referrals in respect of a child where there are concerns that a child is suffering, or is likely to suffer, significant harm;
- When new information on an existing case in Children's social care indicates that a child is likely to suffer significant harm;
- Any new information that a child may be likely to suffer, or has suffered significant harm through being sexually exploited; undergoing FGM or being exposed to radicalisation;
- When an adult or young person assessed as presenting a risk to children has moved into, or is about to move into, the child's household or such a person is regularly visiting or about to have sustained contact with the child;
- When the likelihood of significant harm to an unborn child may be such as to indicate the need to develop a Child Protection Plan before birth;
- When the death of a child in family, in which abuse or neglect is suspected, is confirmed and there are other children in the household;
- When a child lives in, or is born to, a household in which resides another child who is currently the subject of a Child Protection Plan;
- When a child who is currently the subject of a Child Protection Plan in another area moves into this area unless the other authority is to retain responsibility for the case;
- When a child has sexually assaulted another child or there is a risk of such an assault occurring to another child in the same household or in regular contact with the household (in which circumstances a Child Protection Conference should be held in respect of both children);
- Where there are concerns that a child is at risk of harm due to Fabricated and Induced Illness (FII), and there is a need for multi-agency professionals to collectively assess the risk and agree the appropriate course of action.
(This is not an exhaustive list).
A strategy discussion/ meeting should be used to:
- Share available information;
- Agree the conduct and timing of any criminal investigation;
- Decide whether an assessment under Section 47 of the Children Act 1989 (Section 47 Enquiries) should be initiated, or continued, if it has already been initiated following an earlier Strategy discussion/meeting;
- Consider the assessment and the key action points, if already in place;
- Plan how the Section 47 Enquiry should be undertaken (if one is to be initiated), including the need for any medical assessment, and who will carry out what actions, by when and for what purpose;
- Agree what action is required immediately to safeguard and promote the welfare of the child, and/or provide interim services and support. If the child is in hospital, decisions should also be made about how to secure the safe discharge of the child;
- Agree, in particular, when the child will be seen alone, if appropriate for the child, by the social worker during the course of these enquiries and agree the methods by which the child's wishes and feelings will be ascertained so that they can be taken into account when making decisions;
- In the light of the race, ethnicity, beliefs and culture of the child and family, consider how these should be taken into account and to establish whether an interpreter will be required; and
- Consider the needs of other children who may be affected (e.g. siblings and other children, such as those living in the same household, and/or in contact with alleged abusers);
- Determine what information from the strategy discussion/meeting will be shared with the family, unless such information sharing may place a child at increased risk of significant harm or jeopardise police investigations into any alleged offence/s;
- Where there are concerns about the risk of Fabricated and Induced Illness (FII) the strategy discussion should be used to ensure there is a collective understanding of the risk and agree an appropriate strategy to engage the family that does not place the child at increased risk. Please see the separate guidance on Fabricated and Induced Illness;
- Determine if legal action is required.
It is the responsibility of the chair of the strategy discussion/meeting to ensure that the decisions and agreed actions are fully recorded using an appropriate form/ record. All agencies attending should take notes of the actions agreed at the time.
A copy of the record should be made available for all those, who had been invited or involved, as soon as practicable by Children's social care.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Initial strategy discussions for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight are held in MASH on the same day the referral is made and for open cases held within one working day and ideally on the same day. The triage through MASH determines the type of case and decides if a strategy is needed.
In Portsmouth the initial Strategy Discussion will be held in the MASH on the day of referral which is followed by a full Strategy Meeting within four working days except in the following circumstances:
- For allegations/concerns indicating immediate risk of harm to the child (e.g. serious physical injury or serious neglect) the strategy discussion/meeting should be held on the same day as the receipt of the referral;
- For allegations of penetrative sexual abuse, the strategy discussion/meeting should be held on the same day as the receipt of the referral, if it is required to ensure forensic evidence;
- Where immediate action was required by either agency, the strategy discussion/meeting must be held within one working day;
- Where the concerns are particularly complex (e.g. fabricated/induced illness/ organised abuse/ child sexual exploitation or allegations against staff) the strategy discussion/meeting must be held within a maximum of 5working days, but sooner if there is a need to provide immediate protection to a child.
In Southampton Strategy discussions/meetings should be convened as soon as possible [1] bearing in mind the needs of the child and must take place within 3 working days of child protection concerns being identified [RL1], except in the following circumstances:
- For allegations/concerns indicating immediate risk of harm to the child (e.g. serious physical injury or serious neglect) the strategy discussion/meeting should be held on the same day as the receipt of the referral;
- For allegations of penetrative sexual abuse, the strategy discussion/meeting should be held on the same day as the receipt of the referral, if it is required to ensure forensic evidence;
- Where immediate action was required by either agency, the strategy discussion/meeting must be held within one working day;
- Where the concerns are particularly complex (e.g. fabricated/induced illness/ organised abuse/ child sexual exploitation or allegations against staff) the strategy discussion/meeting must be held within a maximum of 5working days, but sooner if there is a need to provide immediate protection to a child.
The plan made at the strategy discussion/meeting should reflect the requirement to convene an Initial Child Protection Conference within 15 working days of the strategy discussion at which it was decided to initiate the Section 47 Enquiry. When Children's social care have concluded that an Initial Child Protection Conference is not required but professionals in other agencies remain seriously concerned about the safety of a child, these professionals should seek further discussion with the social worker, their manager and/or the designated safeguarding professional lead. The concerns, discussion and any agreements made should be recorded in each agency's files. This should be actioned within a timescale commensurate with the need to safeguard the child and in accordance with the Conflict Resolution/Escalation Policy.
In exceptional circumstances, enquiries may be more complicated and may require more than one strategy discussion/meeting. If the strategy discussion / meeting concludes that a further strategy discussion / meeting is required, then a clear timescale should be set and be subject to regular review by the social work manager bearing in mind the safety of the child at all times. Where there is more than one Strategy Meeting it should be noted that any Initial Child Protection Conference should be held within 15 working days of the Strategy Meeting, which initiated the Child Protection Enquiry.
If the conclusion of the strategy discussion/meeting is that there is no cause to pursue the Section 47 Enquiry then consideration should be given to continuing a multi- agency assessment to meet the needs of the child for any early help support services or to provide family support services to them as a child in need.
For information on electronic and digital recording of meetings see related guidance in the Child Protection Conferences Procedure, Membership of Child Protection Conference.
[1] Working Together to Safeguard Children sets no specific timescale expecting professional judgement to consider the needs of the child for safeguarding to determine the pace.
5. The Section 47 Enquiry
Children's social care is the lead agency for Section 47 Enquiries (Children Act 1989) and the Children's social care manager has responsibility for authorising a Section 47 Enquiry following a strategy discussion/meeting.
The Section 47 Enquiry and assessment must be led by a qualified social worker from Children's social care, who will be responsible for its coordination and completion. The social worker must consult with other agencies involved with the child and family to obtain a fuller picture of the circumstances of all children in the household, identifying parenting strengths and any risk factors. Enquiries may also need to cover children in other households with whom the alleged offender may have had contact. All agencies consulted are responsible for providing information to assist.
At the same time, where there is a joint investigation, the Police will have to establish the facts about any offence that may have been committed against a child and collect evidence as they lead the criminal investigation.
The Section 47 Enquiry should begin by focusing on the information identified during the referral/assessment and strategy discussion, which appears most important in relation to the risk of significant harm.
The assessment of risk will:
- Identify the cause for concern, its seriousness, any recurring events and the vulnerability and resilience of the child;
- Evaluate the strengths, including the protective factors, and weaknesses of the family;
- Evaluate the risks to the child/ren and the context in which they are living;
- Consider the child's needs for protection; from whom and how;
- Consider the capacity of the parents and wider family and social networks to safeguard and promote the child's welfare - this must include both parents, any other carers, such as grandparents, and the partners of the parents;
- Risk factors that may suggest a higher level of vulnerability in the family and risk of significant harm such as parental mental health difficulties, parental substance misuse, and domestic violence or combinations of these);
- Determine the level of intervention required to improve the outcome for the child to be safeguarded in the immediate, interim and longer term.
Multi agency information checks:
The social worker must contact the other agencies involved with the child to inform them that a Section 47 Enquiry has been initiated and to seek their views. The checks should be undertaken directly with involved professionals and not through messages with intermediaries.
The relevant agency should be informed of the reason for the enquiry, as well as whether or not parental consent has been obtained, and asked for their assessment of the child in the light of information presented.
Agency checks should include accessing any relevant information that may be held in other parts of the United Kingdom or in any other country. See also Working with Foreign Authorities: Child Protection Cases and Care Orders Departmental advice for local authorities, social workers, service managers and children's services lawyers July 2014.
6. Single Agency and Joint Agency Section 47 Enquiries
The Police and Children's social care must co-ordinate their activities to ensure the parallel process of a Section 47 Enquiry and a criminal investigation is undertaken in the best interests of the child. This should primarily be achieved through joint activity and planning at Strategy Discussions/Meetings.
The primary responsibility of police officers is to undertake criminal investigations of suspected or actual crime and to inform Children's social care when they are undertaking such investigations, and where appropriate to notify the Designated Officer [2] (formerly known as the LADO) in specific cases where there are allegations against people working, in a paid or voluntary capacity, with children.
At the strategy discussion/meeting the police officers should share current and historical information with other services where it is necessary to do so to ensure the protection of a child. Working Together to Safeguard Children states that: The police should assist other agencies to carry out their responsibilities where there are concerns about the child's welfare, whether or not a crime has been committed. If a crime has been committed, the police should be informed by the local authority children's social care.
[2] Working Together to Safeguarding Children Chapter 2, Section 11 of the Children Act 2004 para 5,6,7.
7. Involving Children, Parents and Other Significant Family Members
The child:
Children who are the subject of Section 47 Enquiries should always be seen and communicated with alone by the social worker. In addition, all children within the household must be directly communicated with during Section 47 Enquiries by either the police or Children's social care or both agencies, so as to enable an assessment of their safety to be made.
The children, who are the focus of concern, must be seen alone, subject to their age and willingness, preferably with parental permission.
If the child is the subject of ongoing court proceedings, legal advice must be sought about obtaining permission from the court to see the child.
Children's social care and the police should ensure that appropriate arrangements are in place to support the child through the Section 47 Enquiry. Specialist help may be needed if:
- The child's first language is not English;
- The child appears to have a degree of psychological and/or psychiatric disturbance but is deemed competent;
- The child has a physical/sensory/learning disability;
- Interviewers do not have adequate knowledge and understanding of the child's ethnic, faith r and cultural background;
- Unusual abuse is suspected, including the use of photography or filming (in which case the method of interviewing the child might need to be revised).
It may be necessary to provide information to the child in stages and this must be taken into account in planning the Section 47 Enquiries.
Explanations given to the child must be brought up to date as the assessment and the enquiry progresses. In no circumstances should the child be left wondering what is happening and why.
If the whereabouts of a child subject to Section 47 Enquiries are unknown and cannot be ascertained by the social worker, the following action must be taken within 24 hours:
- A strategy discussion/ meeting with the police;
- Agreement reached with the Children's social care manager responsible as to what further action is required to locate and see the child and carry out the enquiry.
If access to a child is refused or obstructed, the social worker, in consultation with their manager, should co-ordinate a strategy discussion/meeting including legal representation, to develop a plan to locate or access the child/ren and progress the Section 47 Enquiry.
The parents and other significant family members:
In most cases, parents should be enabled to participate fully in the assessment and enquiry process, which must be explained to them verbally and also in writing by providing the local leaflets. If a parent has a specific communication difficulty or English is not their first language, an interpreter should be provided.
The social worker has the main responsibility to engage with parents and other family members to ascertain the facts of the situation causing concern and to assess the capacity of the family to safeguard the child.
Parents must be involved at the earliest opportunity unless to do so would prejudice the safety of the child. The needs and safety of the child will be paramount when determining at what point parents or carers are given information. Parents must be kept informed throughout about the enquiry, its outcome and any subsequent action unless this would jeopardise the welfare of the child.
The assessment must include both parents, any other carers such as grandparents and the partners of the parents.
Where a parent lives elsewhere but has contact with the child arrangements should be made for their involvement in the assessment process.
Appropriate, checks should be completed on a parent, who assumes the care of a child during a Section 47 Enquiry.
An explanation of their rights as parents including the need for support and guidance from an advocate whom they trust should be provided, including advice about the right to seek legal advice.Any objections or complaints expressed by parents during a Section 47 Enquiry, and the response to these objections or complaints, must be clearly recorded.
8. Child Protection Medical Assessments
Arrangements for Medical Assessments
A medical assessment should always be sought when there is a suspicion or disclosure of child abuse and/or neglect involving injury, suspected sexual abuse or serious neglect.
Where the child appears in need of urgent medical attention e.g. suspected fractures, bleeding, loss of consciousness, s/he should be taken to the nearest A & E Department immediately.
In other circumstances the strategy discussion/ meeting will determine, in consultation with the examining clinician, the need for and timing of the medical assessment. This would normally be within 24hours of the referral being received by children's social care.
Where a child needs to be interviewed by Police and/or Children's Social Care, the interview should take place before the medical assessment unless there are exceptional circumstances agreed with the Police and social work service.
The referral must indicate who will attend to give consent for examination. This will normally be a person with parental responsibility, or the young person being referred if he or she is over 16. In some circumstances, consent can be given by a young person under 16, provided the clinician is satisfied that he or she has full understanding of the nature and purpose of the proposed examination. (see Section 9, Consent to Examination and Treatment for further details).
The referring social worker and/or police officer, or an informed deputy, should normally be present and the medical assessment to provide background information and receive immediate feedback about the conclusions.
The purpose of a medical assessment is to provide:
- An assessment of the child's overall health and development;
- Advice regarding treatment, investigation or intervention, both immediately and in the longer term;
- Reassurance to the child and carers about the medical findings and any future implications;
- A record of any physical findings, including written notes, drawings, photographs, video recordings or results of investigations;
- Collection of samples for forensic analysis (the need for these may influence the timing of the examination);
- An opportunity to ensure the child's health needs will be met in the future. This could include follow up by the child protection service, recommendations to the GP or other universal services, or referral(s) to relevant colleagues;
- A written report and opinion regarding the likelihood of abuse and/or neglect. Handwritten reports giving a summary of the findings and preliminary opinion should be provided before the child leaves the department.
Arranging the medical assessment:
In the course of Section 47 Enquiries, appropriately trained and experienced practitioners must take the lead in all medical assessments. Further local information may be added here as required.
A report should be provided by the clinician to the social worker, the GP, health visitor or public health nurse, and where appropriate, the police. The timing of a letter to parents should be determined in consultation with Children's social care and the police.
The report should include:
- Date, time and place of examination;
- Those present;
- Who gave consent and how (child / parent, written / verbal);
- A verbatim record of the carer's and child's accounts of injuries and concerns noting any discrepancies or changes of story;
- Documentary findings in both words and diagrams;
- Site, size, shape and where possible age of any marks or injuries;
- Opinion of whether injury is consistent with explanation;
- Other findings relevant to the child (e.g. squint, learning or speech problems etc);
- Confirmation of the child's developmental progress (especially important in cases of neglect);
- The time the examination ended.
All reports and diagrams should be signed and dated by the doctor undertaking the examination.
9. Consent to Examination and Treatment
The following may give consent to a medical assessment:
- A child of sufficient age and understanding (Gillick competency/Fraser guidelines);
- Any person with parental responsibility, providing they have the capacity to do so; This includes parents who are themselves under 16;
- The local authority when the child is the subject of a care order (though the parent should be informed);
- The local authority when the child is accommodated under s20 of the Children Act 1989, and the parent/s have abandoned the child or are assessed as lacking capacity to give such authority;
- The High Court when the child is a ward of court;
- A family proceedings court as part of a direction attached to an emergency protection order, an interim care order or a child assessment order.
A child of any age who has sufficient understanding (generally to be assessed by the doctor with advice from others as required) to make a fully informed decision can provide lawful consent to all or part of a medical assessment or emergency treatment.
A young person aged 16 or 17 has an explicit right (s8 Family Law Reform Act 1969) to provide consent to surgical, medical or dental treatment and, unless grounds exist for doubting their capacity, no further consent is required.
A child who is of sufficient age and understanding may refuse some or all of the medical assessment, though refusal can potentially be overridden by a court.
Wherever possible the permission of a parent should be sought for children under sixteen prior to any medical assessment and/or other medical treatment.
Where circumstances do not allow permission to be obtained and the child needs emergency medical treatment, the medical practitioner may:
- Regard the child to be of an age and level of understanding to give their own consent;
- Decide to proceed without consent.
In these circumstances, parents must be informed by the medical practitioner as soon as possible and a full record must be made at the time.
In non-emergency situations, when parental permission is not obtained, the social worker and manager must consider whether it is in the child's best interests to seek a court order.
10. Achieving Best Evidence Interviews
Visually recorded interviews must be planned and conducted jointly by trained police officers and social workers in accordance with the Achieving Best Evidence in Criminal Proceedings: Guidance on interviewing victims and witnesses, and guidance on using special measures (Home Office 2011). All events up to the time of the video interview must be fully recorded. Consideration of the use of video recorded evidence should take in to account situations where the child has been subject to abuse using recording equipment.
Visually recorded interviews serve two primary purposes:
- Evidence gathering for criminal proceedings;
- Examination in chief of a child witness.
Relevant information from this process can also be used to inform Section 47 Enquiries, subsequent civil childcare proceedings or disciplinary proceedings against adults, where allegations have been made.
11. The Outcome of Section 47 Enquiries
Children's social care is responsible for deciding how to proceed with the enquiries and risk assessment based on the strategy discussion/meeting and taking into account the views of the child, their parents and other relevant parties (e.g. a foster carer). It is important that they ensure that both immediate risk assessment and long term risk assessment are considered. Where the child's circumstances are about to change, the risk assessment must include an assessment of the safety of the new environment (e.g. where a child is to be discharged from hospital to home the assessment must have established the safety of the home environment and implemented any support plan required to meet the child's needs).
At the completion of the Section 47 Enquiry, Children's social care must evaluate and analyse all the information gathered to determine if the threshold for significant harm has been reached.
The outcome of the Section 47 Enquiries may reflect that the original concerns are:
- Not substantiated; although consideration should be given to whether the child may need services as a child in need;
- Substantiated and the child is judged to be suffering, or likely to suffer, significant harm and an initial child protection conference should be called.
Concerns are not substantiated:
Social workers with their managers should:
- Discuss the case with the child, parents and other professionals;
- Determine whether support from any services may be helpful and help secure it; and
- Consider whether the child's health and development should be re-assessed regularly against specific objectives and decide who has responsibility for doing this.
All involved professionals should:
- Participate in further discussions as necessary;
- Contribute to the development of any plan as appropriate;
- Provide services as specified in the plan for the child; and
- Review the impact of services delivered as agreed in the plan.
The Children's social care manager must authorise the decision that no further action is necessary, having ensured that the child, any other children in the household and the child's carers have been seen and spoken with.
Arrangements should be noted for future referrals, if appropriate.
Concerns of significant harm are substantiated and the child is judged to be suffering, or likely to suffer, significant harm:
Social workers with their managers should:
- Arrange for an initial child protection conference to be convened. The timing of this conference should depend on the urgency of the case and respond to the needs of the child and the nature and severity of the harm they may be facing. The initial child protection conference must take place within 15 working days of a strategy discussion, or the strategy discussion at which section 47 enquiries were initiated if more than one has been held;
- Consider whether any professionals with specialist knowledge should be invited to participate;
- Ensure that the child and their parents understand the purpose of the conference and who will attend (using any documentation to assist with this); and
- Help prepare the child if he or she is attending or making representations through a third party to the conference. Give information about advocacy agencies and explain that the family may bring an advocate, friend or supporter.
All involved professionals should:
- Contribute to the information their agency provides ahead of the conference in writing on the prescribed form, setting out the nature of the agency's involvement with the child and family;
- Consider, in conjunction with the police and the appointed conference Chair, whether the report can and should be shared with the parents and if so when (N.B. Southampton require that all reports must be shared with parents (and older children as appropriate); and
- Attend the conference and take part in decision making when invited;
- Attend any subsequent review or core group meetings.
Feedback from Section 47 Enquiries:
The Children's social worker is responsible for recording the outcome of the Section 47 Enquiries consistent with the requirements of the recording system. The outcome should be put on the child's electronic record with a clear record of the discussions, authorised by the Children's social care manager.
Notification, verbal or written, of the outcome of the enquiries, including an evaluation of the outcome for the child, should be given to all the agencies who have been significantly involved for their information and records.
The parents and children of sufficient age and appropriate level of understanding should be given feedback of the outcome, in particular in advance of any initial child conference that is convened. This information should be conveyed in an appropriate format for younger children and those people whose preferred language is not English. If there are ongoing criminal investigations, the content of the social worker's feedback should be agreed with the police.
Feedback about outcomes should be provided to non-professional referrers in a manner that respects the confidentiality and welfare of the child.
Where the child concerned is living in a residential establishment which is subject to inspection, the relevant inspectorate should be informed.
Where the decision about the outcome of the Section 47 Enquiry is disputed:
Where Children's social care have concluded that an initial child protection conference is not required but professionals in other agencies remain seriously concerned about the safety of a child, these professionals should seek further discussion with the social worker, their manager and/or the nominated safeguarding children adviser. The concerns, discussion and any agreements made should be recorded in each agency's files.
If concerns remain, the professional should discuss with a designated/named/lead person or senior manager in their agency and the agency may formally request that Children's social care convene an initial child protection conference. Children's social care should convene a conference where one or more professionals, supported by a senior manager/named or designated professional requests one.
If the matter remains unresolved the Conflict Resolution/Escalation Policy should be used.
12. Timescales for Section 47 Enquiries
From when Children's social care receive a referral or identify a concern of risk of significant harm to a child:
- The initial strategy discussion/ meeting, which may instigate the Section 47 Enquiry must take place; as set out in Section 4, Strategy Discussion / Meeting;
- The multi-agency assessment taking place along with the Section 47 Enquiries must be completed within a maximum of 45 days of the original referral date with progress being reviewed by a Children's social care manager regularly to avoid any unnecessary delay and to ensure that the safety of the child is reviewed effectively.
The maximum period of an enquiry from the strategy discussion/ meeting to the date of the initial child protection conference is 15 working days. In exceptional circumstances, where more than one strategy discussion / meeting takes place, the timescale remains as 15 working days from the strategy discussion / meeting which initiated the Section 47 Enquiries.
13. Recording
A full written record must be completed by each agency involved in a Section 47 Enquiry, using the required agency proforma, authorised and dated by the staff.
The responsible manager must countersign/authorise Children's social care Section 47 recording and forms.
Practitioners should, wherever possible, retain rough notes in line with local retention of record procedures until the completion of anticipated legal proceedings.
At the completion of the enquiry, the social work manager should ensure that the concerns and outcome have been entered in the recording system including on the child's chronology and that other agencies have been informed.
Children's social care recording of enquiries should include:
- Agency checks;
- Content of contact cross-referenced with any specific forms used;
- Strategy discussion/meeting notes;
- Details of the enquiry;
- Body maps (where applicable);
- Assessment including identification of risks and how they may be managed;
- Decision making processes;
- Outcome/further action planned.
All agencies involved should ensure that records have been concluded and countersigned in line with agency policies and recording procedures.
All records should be checked for the correct spelling of names and any alias as well as correct dates of birth.
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Brookville, N.Y. – Approximately 700 foreign high school exchange students who spent the school year living with American host families will gather at LIU Post on Tuesday, June 25 and board buses to John F. Kennedy International Airport for their flights home.
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