Implementation of the Information Sharing Guidelines is going well with Nunkuwarrin Yunti, DECS, DFC, SA Health and UnitingCare Wesley Adelaide in the training and induction phase for staff. The second stage agencies, Australian Red Cross, Centacare and the government agencies under the umbrella of the Department of Justice, are preparing their procedures. The Guardian’s 2008-09 Annual Report was [...]
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Browsing Posts tagged child-sensitive records
What’s been done – December 2009 to February 2010
February 9, 2010
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Participation of children and young people in decisions made about their care – guide to good practice
October 30, 2009
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This guide to good practice is intended to encourage adults who are making decisions about children’s and young people’s care to work with them on those decisions. This is not just about children’s rights, though that is clear, but about making good decisions. Good decisions are not absolute and we do not have perfect foresight [...]
Child-sensitive records checklist
November 14, 2008
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This checklist can help workers and their agencies ensure that case records and reports produced about a child or young person are child-centred and child-sensitive. It is based on what young people have told the Office of the Guardian about what information they think should be recorded and how it should be recorded. The Child-sensitive records checklist can [...]
Participation of children and young people in decisions – literature review
November 6, 2008
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For most children and young people, decisions about where to go to school, where to live and who they spend time with are made by their parents. Children and young people in care have these decisions made in formal processes such as case conferences by a number of adults, some of whom a child or [...]
