8. Regulation of care
Purpose
When intervention with a child and family involves placing a child away from their parent's care, Child Safety Services is required to provide the child with a safe and acceptable standard of care.
The purpose of regulating foster and kinship carers, including provisionally approved carers, is to ensure that an individual who provides care for a child placed with them by Child Safety Services, is suitable to care for the child and continues to meet suitability requirements for the duration of their approval.
Key steps
What ifs - responding to specific areas of regulation of care
Standards
- Consideration is given to placing the child with kin, as a first option.
- All children are placed with an approved foster or kinship carer or a provisionally approved carer.
- All persons to be considered as suitable persons, prior to being issued with a certificate of approval as a foster or kinship carer or provisionally approved carer.
- Applications for approval, or renewal of approval, are decided within legislative timeframes.
- Personal history checks are undertaken by the CSU for all applicants and adult household members.
Practice skills (key areas for reflection)
- Have I accessed all sources of relevant information in undertaking the assessment?
- Did I include in my assessment report relevant, factual and concise information, including evidence and professional opinion, which supports the recommendation for approval or refusal of an application?
- Have I undertaken the assessment in an open, accountable and transparent manner and treated the applicant fairly, with courtesy and respect?
- Have I addressed issues of concern with the applicant during the assessment process?
- How did I facilitate the applicant's participation in decision-making?
Authority
- Child Protection Act 1999, section 5 and 6, and chapter 4, part 1 and 2
- Child Protection Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2006, section 9
- CCYPCG for Children and Young People Act 2000, section 100, 101, 104B and part 6
- Policy no. 457-1: Carer learning and support
- Policy no. 460-1: Carer participation
- Policy no. 383-2: Foster care training
- Policy no. 372-2: Recordkeeping
- Recordkeeping: Client file procedure
- Last updated
- 21 September 2009
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