Child Safety Services’ resources
- Adoption of Children Act 1964
- Adoption Practice Manual

- Adult household member guidelines

- Advanced training
- Blue cards - Fact sheet
- Business rules for transitional placements and flexible funding

- Care agreements - Information for parents
- Carer handbook
- Carer information sheets
- Child Health Passport - private and confidential

- Child Protection Act 1999
- Children and Young People’s Participation Strategy 2008-2011
- Client file procedure module 5.3 - Attaching sensitive information to client files

- Code of conduct

- CPE2 - Linking of court orders

- Critical steps in case planning

- Developing the goal, outcomes and actions

- Do you have a complaint about the Department of Child Safety?
- Escalation flowchart Department of Housing and Child Safety - dispute resolution re: service provision

- Example of warrant order to return child to Queensland

- Expect respect - we do
- Family group meeting convenor handbook

- Feedback and complaints
- Finalise the strengths and needs assessment

- Flowchart - Requesting housing assistance from Housing and Homelessness Services

- Form 3A - Guidelines for completing assessment report - Initial approval only

- Form 3B - Guidelines for completing assessment report - Renewal of approval only

- Foster Carer Card - Fact sheet
- How to attach a child health passport

- How to attach the education support plan

- Info kit for children and young people in care
- Information for Department of Child Safety - Department of Housing products

- Information Sharing Protocol between the Commonwealth and Child Protection Agencies

- Information sheet about support persons and advocates in matters of concern

- Information sheet for children and young people

- Intake prompt sheet

- Intervention diagram

- Interview resource: Childhood experiences
- Interview resource: Ecomap
- Interview resource: Family relationships
- Interview resource: Genogram
- Interview resource: Instructions
- Interview resource: Interview with child
- Interview resource: Interview with other household member
- Interview resource: Interview with young person
- Interview resource: Lifeline
- Interview resource: Motivation to foster
- Interview resource: Parenting styles
- Interview resource: Statement of standards
- Interview resource: Support in times of stress
- Interview resource: Teamwork
- Interview resource: Use of time
- Key factors for the Department when considering the level of intervention in a Family Law Court Proceeding

- Kids rights: Charter of Rights for children in care
- Legislative requirements for providing care - Fact sheet
- List of criminal offences preventing reunification

- Listening, hearing and acting: Approaches to the participation of children and young people in decision making
- Medicare information sheet

- Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between The State of Queensland through the Department of Child Safety and The State of Queensland through the Department of Housing 2007

- Memorandum of Understanding between Disability Services Queensland and the Department of Child Safety 2007-2010

- Memorandum of Understanding between Department of Education and the Arts and the Department of Child Safety

- Multicultural action plan
- My journey in care
- Physical and cognitive developmental milestones
- Practice guide: The assessment of harm and risk of harm

- Practice guide: To developing a Cultural Support Plan

- Practice paper: A framework for practice with ‘high risk’ young people (12-17 years)
- Practice paper: Assessment of foster carer applicants
- Practice paper: Carer support and supervision

- Practice paper: Child sexual abuse

- Practice paper: Domestic and family violence and its relationship to child protection
- Practice paper: Family contact for children and young people in out-of-home care
- Practice paper: Parental substance misuse and child protection: intervention strategies
- Practice paper: Parental substance misuse and child protection: overview, indicators, impacts, risk and protective factors
- Practice paper: Permanency planning

- Practice paper: Placing children in out-of-home care - principles and guidelines for improving outcomes
- Practice paper: Supporting children and young people in care through transitions
- Practice paper: Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

- Practice paper: Working with children and young people in out-of-home care
- Practice paper: Working with people form culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
- Practice resource: Approved carers - an overview
- Practice resource: Assessing the progress of the case plan
- Practice resource: Assessment of kinship carer applicants
- Practice resource: Assessment orders
- Practice resource: Bank accounts
- Practice resource: Case planning - an overview
- Practice resource: Child concern report responses and referrals
- Practice resource: Child health passports

- Practice resource: Child health passports flowchat

- Practice resource: Children with sexual abuse histories
- Practice resource: Communicating with the notifier
- Practice resource: Comparison of the key steps for carer approval
- Practice resource: Completing the Certificate of Approval
- Practice resource: Completing the joint action plan
- Practice resource: CSAHSC - profile and crisis intervention model
- Practice resource: Evolve interagency services
- Practice resource: Explaining harm and criminal offences
- Practice resource: Facilitating family contact
- Practice resource: Family risk evaluation

- Practice resource: Funerals and memorial services
- Practice resource: Guide to developing a positive behaviour support plan
- Practice resource: Information gathering guide
- Practice resource: Information sharing - case examples
- Practice resource: Informing parents about the harm and the outcome - section 15
- Practice resource: Intake - key concepts and definitions
- Practice resource: Interviewing a child
- Practice resource: Investigation and assessment - an overview
- Practice resource: Investigation and assessment - key concepts and definitions
- Practice resource: Key concepts for the regulation of care
- Practice resource: Legislative requirements for the approval of kinship carers
- Practice resource: Long-term guardianship assessment factors
- Practice resource: Mandatory advice to blue card applicants
- Practice resource: Matters of concern - key concepts and definitions
- Practice resource: Meeting the statement of standards
- Practice resource: Negotiating support arrangements for approved carers
- Practice resource: Notifiers and mandatory notifiers
- Practice resource: Out-of-home care - an integrated child protection response
- Practice resource: Overview of referral and planning process with Department of Housing
- Practice resource: Placement documentation
- Practice resource: Placement matching principles
- Practice resource: Placements with another entity - 82(1) (f)
- Practice resource: Planning for and undertaking a joint investigation
- Practice resource: Providing adoption services
- Practice resource: Recognised entities
- Practice resource: Recording notification information
- Practice resource: Recording the investigation and assessment
- Practice resource: Respite options
- Practice resource: Reviewing the Foster Carer Agreement
- Practice resource: Safety assessment

- Practice resource: Schedule of criminal offences
- Practice resource: Structured decision making - an overview

- Practice resource: Support levels and behaviour characteristics
- Practice resource: The authority to care form
- Practice resource: The investigation and assessment plan
- Practice resource: The role of a support person
- Practice resource: The role of the CSO at intake
- Practice resource: The substance testing of parents
- Practice resource: Transferring an ongoing intervention case
- Practice resource: Transition from care
- Practice resource: Unborn children
- Practice resource: Understanding personal history checks
- Practice resource: Use of powers for a child at immediate risk - section 16 and 18
- Practice resource: Vexatious and malicious notifiers
- Practice resource: Working with family law courts
- Practice resource: Writing an affidavit
- Practice resource: Youth justice - an overview
- Pre-service training
- Procedures and guidelines for Quality Care: Foster Care Training
- RecFind user guide

- Recordkeeping client file procedure

- Schedule 2 Providing housing assistance to children in need of protection

- SDM: Child strengths and needs assessment

- SDM: Family reunification assessment

- SDM: Family risk evaluation

- SDM: Family risk re-evaluation

- SDM: Parental strengths and needs assessment

- SDM: Response priority

- SDM: Safety assessment

- SDM: Screening criteria
- Shared Information Solutions ICMS - Child Protection Participants Manual September 2008

- Standard training
- Statement of Commitment between the Department of Child Safety, foster care services and the carers of Queensland
- Statutory delegations

- Strategic plan 2008-12
- Strengths and needs interviewing questions

- Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) System Inter-agency Policy and Procedures, September 2006

- The case planning process

- The Child Placement Principle Prompt Sheet

- Transfer summary sheet - administrative transfer from Queensland to all states and New Zealand

- Translated resources

- What is provisional approval? - Fact sheet
- When Child Safety Officers visit your home brochure
- Where to from here? A guide to community services for young people making the transition to living independently
- Last updated
- 9 October 2009


