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Table of contents:
Protecting children
- About child protection
- Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families
- Child protection legislation
- Mandatory notifiers and reporting
- Children and young people's rights
- Parent's rights
- Roles and responsibilities
- National approach to child protection
- National Framework for Protecting Australia's Children
- Projects Update
- Joining up service delivery
- Closing the gap
- Seeing early warning signs, taking early action (including the CAARS project)
- Improving support for carers
- Developing National Standards for Out-of-Home Care
- Building Workforce Capacity and Expertise
- Enhancing the evidence base
- Filling the Research Gaps
- Transitioning to independence
- Responding to Sexual Abuse
- Advocating Nationally for Children and Young People
- Sharing Information
- Projects Update
- What is child abuse?
- How to prevent abuse
- Reporting child abuse
- Responding to child abuse
- Ongoing intervention
- Contacts
- Resources and publications
Foster care
- About foster and kinship care
- Become a foster or kinship carer
- Blue cards and exemption cards for carers
- Carer training
- Foster carer training
- Foreword
- Procedures and guidelines
- Frequently asked questions
- Orientation
- Learning outcomes
- Pre-service training
- Learning journal
- Standard training
- Advanced training
- Attachment
- Whose problem is this?
- Foster Parent College
- Independence and connections
- I'm an individual...
- Infectious diseases
- Ready, set, fly! A parent's guide to teaching life skills
- Loss and grief for children in care
- Participation
- Positive and Protective series (developed by Family Planning Queensland)
- Reality fostering
- Strategies for Managing Abuse Related Trauma (SMART)
- Whose job is this?
- Recognition of prior learning (RPL)
- Acknowledgements
- Forms and templates
- Kinship carer training
- Foster carer training
- Children and young people
- Support for carers
- Foster a child
- Step 1: Process to become an approved carer
- Step 2: About foster care
- Step 3: Real stories
- Step 4: Initial self-assessment - Have I got what it takes?
- Step 5: Expression of interest
- Resources
- Rights and responsibilities
- Case planning for a child in care
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
- Regulation of care
- Contacts
- Resources and publications
Adoption
- Parents considering adoption for their child
- Intercountry adoption
- Local adoption
- Past adoptions
- Adoption information sessions
- Contacts
- Resources and publications
Partners
About us
- Our department
- Our Minister
- Careers
- Feedback and complaints
- Legislation
- Our performance
- Summary statistics
- Child Protection System Framework
- Intake phase
- Investigation and assessment phase
- Ongoing intervention phase
- Ongoing intervention phase (Permanency planning)
- Improved safety
- High quality services and improved wellbeing
- Representation of Indigenous children
- Demographics
- Child death case reviews
- Regional data
- Zonal data
- Service centre data
- Adoptions
- Glossary of terms
- Table notes
- Contacts
- Resources and publications
- News and events
- Research Child Safety, Youth and Families, Community Participation
- Contact us
- Publications
Child Safety Practice Manual
- Introduction
- Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services
- Relevant legislation
- Other key documents
- Child safety service centres: staff roles and responsibilities
- Framework for the participation of children and young people in decision-making
- Respecting diversity
- Recognised entities
- Delegations
- Accountability for children in Queensland
- Resources
- Practice framework and maps
- Chapters
- 1. Intake
- 2. Investigation and assessment
- 3. Ongoing intervention
- 4. Case planning
- 5. Children in out-of-home care
- 6. Intervention with parental agreement
- 7. Support service cases
- 8. Regulation of care
- 9. Matters of concern
- 10. General
- 10.1 Decision-making about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
- 10.2 Statutory obligation to notify the Queensland Police Service of possible criminal offences
- 10.3 Information sharing
- 10.4 Providing adoption services
- Key steps
- 1. Provide adoption services
- 2. Determine the primary case worker
- 3. Supervise services delivered by the primary case worker
- 4. Provide pre-consent counselling to parents
- 5. Facilitate an adoption care agreement for a child whose parents are receiving pre-consent counselling
- 6. Witness consents to an adoption
- 7. Provide information and counselling to a child and consider the child's views
- 8. Pursue adoption for a child subject to a child protection order
- 9. Respect Aboriginal tradition and Island custom
- 10. Respond to a request to provide one-off post adoption services
- 11. Record information
- Resources
- Key steps
- 10.5 Recording sensitivity
- 10.6 Downgrading or deleting an approved notification
- 10.7 Undertake the substance testing of parents
- 10.8 Responding to self-harming behaviour
- 10.9 Responding to suicide risk behaviour
- 10.10 Warrant for the apprehension of a child
- 10.11 Staff safety and well-being
- 10.12 Professional supervision
- 10.13 The video taping or recording of Child Safety staff
- 10.14 Referral for active intervention services
- 10.15 The role of the Child Safety After Hours Service Centre
- 10.16 Referral to an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander family support service
- 10.17 Complaints management
- 10.18 Interstate and New Zealand matters
- 10.19 The review of child deaths
- 10.20 Victims of crime and the role of Victim Assist Queensland
- 10.21 Family courts
- Key steps
- 1. The family courts and child protection interface
- 2. Exchange of information
- 3. Assess information received about harm or risk of harm
- 4. Respond to an order requesting intervention by Child Safety - section 91B orders
- 5. Undertake an investigation and assessment
- 6. Respond to a child in need of protection
- What ifs - responding to specific family court matters
- Resources
- Key steps
- 10.22 International child protection matters and the Hague Convention
- Resources
- Practice papers
- Resources
- Structured Decision Making
- Restricted content
- Quicklinks
- Acronyms
- Glossary of terms
- How to use the Child Safety Practice Manual
- Previous versions
- Printable version
- Updates
- CSPM February 2013 updates
- CSPM June 2012 updates
- CSPM August 2011 updates
- CSPM November 2010 updates
- CSPM July 2010 updates
- CSPM February 2010 updates
- CSPM July 2009 updates
- CSPM June 2009 updates
- CSPM May 2009 updates
- CSPM April 2009 updates
- CSPM December 2008 updates
- CSPM November 2008 updates
- CSPM September 2008 updates
- Stage 9 updates
- Stage 8 updates
- Stage 7 updates
- Stage 6 updates
- Stage 5 updates (31 May 2006)
- Stage 4 updates (20 February 2006)
- Stage 3 updates (16 September 2005) (Note - SDM operational 30 October 2005)
- Stage 2 updates (1 May 2005)
- Stage 1 updates (7 March 2005)
- Last reviewed
- 18 September 2012
- Last modified
- 9 April 2013
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© The State of Queensland (Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services) 2010–2013.
