Information Sharing
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AREA CHILD PROTECTION COMMITTEE
ASSESSMENT PLAN IIMPLEMENT REVIEW (APIR)
This is the term commonly used across children’s services to refer to the extent to which people are able to receive the information, services or care that they need.
A course or learning programme designed to meet the needs people who wish to study for a qualification but who do not possess traditional entry requirements, and is often targeted at those who have experienced previous educational disadvantage. The general aim of an access course will include preparing learners’ for study by developing their academic skills as well as developing confidence in their ability to function in a formal learning setting.
This term is used to cover children who are being looked after by the local authority under a voluntary agreement.
A Teacher who has been recognised through external assessment as having excellent classroom practice and given additional payment and increased non-contact time in order to share their skills and experience with other teachers, within their own school and from other schools.
Support and advice for a service user to enable their point to be put across effectively to providers.
Data which has been reduced to such an extent, that it is no longer possible, by any means, to identify any individual. Typically this will include information for statistical returns at both local and national level.
Information from which a person cannot be identified by the recipient.
Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) are statutory measures that aim to protect the public from behaviour that causes (or is likely to cause) harassment, alarm or distress. They were introduced by section 1 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, and came into force from 1 April 1999.
A young person who is learning a trade or occupation but is bound by legal agreement to work for a specific amount of time in return for the instruction in a trade or business.
An approved social worker (ASW) is a qualified social worker who has undergone additional training and been approved by the local authority to carry out a range of statutory duties under the Mental Health Act (1983). These include assessing whether a person needs to be detained in hospital compulsorily.
AREA CHILD PROTECTION COMMITTEE – See also Local Safeguarding Children Boards
The Area Child Protection Committee (ACPC) is a local multi-agency forum that brings together representatives from each of the main agencies and professions responsible for helping to protect children from abuse and neglect. Each local authority has to ensure that there is an ACPC covering its area. The Children Act 2004 requires local authorities to establish Local Safeguarding Children Boards by 2006; these will replace an ACPC
ASSESSMENT PLAN IIMPLEMENT REVIEW (APIR)
APIR is a comprehensive framework for one-to-one interaction with young people, used formally or informally, by those working within the Connexions service. When a worker is involved with a young person over a sustained period, the ‘assess plan implement review’ (APIR) cycle is used. The framework covers a wide range of factors that can affect a young person’s performance, outlook and behaviour, and the worker selects those parts of the framework that he or she feels are appropriate to the young person. Wherever possible, young people are encouraged to play a full part in completing and reviewing the results of the framework.
Generally, an assessment can be defined as any systematic process of assessing the needs, circumstances or progress of a child (or family) against defined norms, an established scale or standardised benchmarks, with the intention of understanding the child’s needs (and the family’s needs), circumstances or progress, in order to decide on appropriate further action (or to confirm that no additional help is required). Implementation of the Common Assessment Framework will establish a national, common process across agencies for assessing (and deciding how to meet) the additional needs of all children at the earliest signs of their difficulties.
Asset (not an acronym) is a comprehensive and structured assessment tool produced by the Youth Justice Board for use by Youth Offending Teams with all young offenders who come into contact with the criminal justice system. Asset aims to identify a wide range of factors and circumstances that may have contributed to the offending behaviour, such as a lack of educational attainment or mental health problems. The information can then be used to inform court reports so appropriate intervention programmes can be drawn up.
Since the Children Act 1989 came into force, the term ‘at risk’ has generally been used to describe a child believed to be at risk of ‘significant harm’ and therefore in need of protection by the local authority. When a child is described by someone from social services as being ‘at risk’, this is still likely to be what they mean. However, during recent years the term has also come to be used more widely, for example to describe children thought to be at risk of social exclusion. Such an everyday term could be used in common speech to suggest that a child is at risk of almost anything - exclusion from school, health problems or alcohol dependency etc.
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