Children in Specific Situations 

• • MCES Missing From Home & Care Procedures and Guidance June 2017

• • MCES Young Carers Guidance, Policy, Procedures

• • Manchester City Council’s joint protocol for working with children aged 16/17 years old who are homeless or threatened with homelessness

• • Children missing education: Statutory guidance for local authorities and advice for other groups on helping children who are missing education get back into it. September 2016

• • Statutory guidance on children who run away or go missing from home or care
• • January 2014

• • Statutory guidance on children who run away or go missing from home or care
• • Flowchart showing roles and responsibilities when a child goes missing from care

• • Safeguarding children who may have been trafficked Practice guidance

• • Criminal Exploitation of children and vulnerable adults: County Lines guidance September 2018

• • Child sexual exploitation: definition and guide for practitioners: Definition of child sexual exploitation, potential vulnerabilities and indicators of abuse and appropriate action to take in response.

• • Care of unaccompanied migrant children and child victims of modern slavery Statutory guidance for local authorities November 2017

• • Cross-border child protection cases: the 1996 Hague Convention: Departmental advice for local authorities, social workers, service managers and children’s services lawyers October 2012

• • Modern slavery: how to identify and support victims November 2021

• • Care of unaccompanied migrant children and child victims of modern slavery Statutory guidance for local authorities November 2017

• • National referral mechanism guidance: adult (England and Wales) Updated 21 December 2021

• • The Right to Choose: Multi-agency statutory guidance for dealing with forced marriage January 2013

• • Multi-agency statutory guidance on female genital mutilation July 2020

• • Mandatory Reporting of Female Genital Mutilation – procedural information January 2020

• • Female Genital Mutilation Risk and Safeguarding: Guidance for professionals May 2016

• • FGM Safeguarding and Risk Assessment: Quick guide for health professionals

• • FGM Safeguarding Pathway

• • FGM risk assessment templates

• • Perplexing Presentations (PP) / Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII) in Children RCPCH guidance*

• • Prevention of homelessness and provision of accommodation for 16 and 17 year old young people who may be homeless and/or require accommodation

• • Standards for children in the youth justice system February 2019

• • MCES Legal Gateway Panel Terms of Reference

• • MCES Family and Friends Carers Guidance and Procedure

• • MCES Private Fostering Guidance, Policy, Procedures

• • MCS Permanence Policy - Our Manchester, Our Chidren. Securing Permanence: Policy, & Procedure

• • Court orders and pre-proceedings For local authorities April 2014

• • Family and Friends Care: Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities

• • Initial Family and Friends Care Assessment: A good practice guide

• • Fostering services: national minimum standards

Corporate Parenting | Fostering

• • Knowledge and Skills Statement: Achieving Permanence

• • IRO Handbook: Statutory guidance for independent reviewing officers and local authorities on their functions in relation to case management and review for looked after children

• • Applying corporate parenting principles to looked-after children and care leavers
• • Statutory guidance for local authorities February 2018

• • Children Act 1989: care planning, placement and case review July 2021

• • Children Act 1989: transition to adulthood for care leavers 2015

• • Applying corporate parenting principles to looked-after children and care leavers February 2018

• • Promoting the health and well-being of looked-after children March 2015

• • Promoting the education of looked-after children and previously looked-after children February 2018

• • “Staying Put” Arrangements for Care Leavers aged 18 and above to stay on with their former foster carers May 2013

• • The national protocol on reducing unnecessary criminalisation of looked-after children
• • and care leavers November 2018

• • Assessment and approval of foster carers: Amendments to the Children Act 1989 Guidance and Regulations July 2013

• • Children Act 1989 Part III Secure accommodationSection 25

• • Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000

• • Secure children’s homes: how to place a child aged under 13

Covid-19

• • Gov’t Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for children's social care services

• • The PCFSW COVID-19 Ethical Response and Best Practice Guide For Children and Families Services

• • Guidance for schools: coronavirus (COVID-19)

• • Use of PPE in education, childcare and children’s social care

• • Gov’t Coronavirus (COVID‑19) updates, announcements, general guidance

• • Coronavirus Crisis: Guidance on Compliance with Family Court Child Arrangement Orders March 2020