Eligibility Criteria â Guidance for Staff - South Ayrshire Council

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2.0 ASSESSMENT AND ALLOCATION 2.1 Duty referrals When a child is referred to Social Work Children’s Services, the referral will be passed to the duty worker who is responsible for the initial gathering of information form universal services, any specialist service linked to the child, and previous referrals to Social Work Services. The duty worker will then record all the relevant information on SWIS and provide an initial assessment of the key issues/concerns and make a recommendation on what action they assess is required. Child protection referrals are given the highest priority and when a child protection referral is received the duty worker must discuss it immediately with the duty manager. If the duty manager is unavailable the duty worker must locate another manager to discuss the referral with. 2.2 Duty manager responsibility The duty manager will prioritise referrals in accordance with the eligibility criteria Any cases not allocated must be kept under review on a weekly basis by the Team Leader for the relevant locality. Any further referrals must be considered and reprioritised as required. Business meetings between managers should consider any cases that are unallocated and decide what action is required if delivery of service is not possible within the locality and or family centre intervention is required. 2.3 Response Timescales Our aims:- Within 24 hours of the time of referral Within a period of 10 working days Within a further 10 working days Within a period of 12 weeks from the date of allocation. A decision will be made about the level of need, if any. It may be determined for example that no further action is necessary In cases at the medium or high priority need level, an initial assessment and accompanying work plan will be undertaken and completed with a view to allocating or transferring to the appropriate service thereafter. Referral response letter will be triggered to the referring agency or individual regarding the referral outcome. Where it becomes apparent to the duty manager that longer-term social work involvement is necessary, he/she is to discuss transfer or arrange to allocate directly to a named worker A comprehensive social work assessment in relation to medium and high priority need cases will be completed. Proposed introduction of CAP as part of GIRFEC Practice Model implementation.
3.0 THE ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA The Eligibility Criteria are intended to provide a useful guide for social work teams in terms of managing workloads and competing demands in an equitable manner. It is recognised that there will continue to be tensions between managing priorities within existing caseloads on the one hand, and new referrals on the other; the criteria provide an objective and transparent basis for allocating resources according to priority needs. 3.1 High Priority Need For these children, there will be serious concern about their care, health and/or development; they will have suffered or be likely to suffer significant harm. There might also be a serious risk of family breakdown. The following examples are not exhaustive but rather are meant to be indicative of factors giving rise to high priority need. HIGH PRIORITY NEED(1) • Children and Young People with a high level of special needs or disability requiring constant supervision, and where there is a high risk of family breakdown; • Situations where the physical care or supervision of a child or young person is severely neglected; HEALTH • Children and young people involved in serious substance misuse requiring high level intervention determined by dust tool assessment. • Children and young people who have presented at accident and emergency as a result of substance misuse. • Children and young people who seriously self harm (determined by method, frequency and severity) and who experience SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL BEHAVIOURAL & • Children with severe challenging behaviour which results in serious risk to the child or others which parents are unable to manage and which results in a high risk of family breakdown. • Children and people where police assistance has been called to resolve behavior issues at home. • Children and young people who exhibit sexually inappropriate behavior. • Children and young people who are involved in offending behvaiour and are considered to be high risk or above in terms of re-offending. • Children or young people who are involved in solemn court proceedings and have been charged with indictable offences. • Children and young people who are experiencing acute emotional rejection by parents or carers including unrealistic expectations, scapegoating and inconsistent parenting; • Children and young people who have moved from another authority where they are/ were subject to child protection procedures. • Children and young people who are severely disaffected not engaged in
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