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Assessing the needs of children when making and supporting permanent placement through special guardianship and agreeing and implementing contact plans
PROVIDING A SECURE BASE THROUGH SPECIAL GUARDIANSHIP – WHAT ABOUT CONTACT?
The first objective of children’s services is to ensure that all children are securely attached to carers capable of providing safe and effective care for the duration of their childhood and hopefully beyond.
Special guardianship has increasingly become a way of providing permanence for children not being brought in the care of birth parents.
When care planning for children to have permanence through special guardianship, what kind of contact with birth family/other birth family members is appropriate, how is it facilitated, supported, supervised (if necessary) and kept under review?
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