Dictionary Result for : 'P'

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Placement

This is the place where you live while you’re looked after.

Placement Plan

This is part of your care plan – The Placement Plan is a plan made about how your life should be on a daily basis. Your care plan says what will happen to you over your time in care, but a placement plan should tell you and your carers what is going to be happening on a day to day basis. You should have seen your placement plan for every placement that you have been in.

Personal Education Plan (PEP)

This is a plan for making sure you get the most out of school while you are in care. It’s part of your care plan.

Pathway Plan

Your Pathway plan is a plan that is drawn up around the time of your 16th birthday and it’s about your plan for independence and what you are going to do after you leave care. You will work on your pathway plan with your Social Worker or Young Persons Advisor.

Parental Responsibility (PR)

Parental responsibility is the rights and power of a parent to make decisions about their child, for example agreeing to medical/dental treatment.

Permanence

This describes a plan for a child which is intended to last until the child becomes an adult at 18. It can be achieved through:

  • A plan to return to your parents
  • A placement with relatives or friends, whether they are long term foster carers for you, or they have a Residence Order or a Special Guardianship Order
  • A placement with unrelated foster carers in foster care
  • Adoption when a child is legally adopted into another family. This can only happen if clear procedures are followed and the court makes an adoption order.

Placement Order

A placement order allows Children’s Services to go for adoption even if the parents don’t agree. Children’s Services usually apply for a placement order during (or after) care proceedings if there is a plan for the child to be adopted and the parents (who have parental responsibility) don’t agree.

Planning Meeting

Planning meetings are held either before or immediately after a child is looked after and it is to work out the arrangements for the child. These arrangements include where the child will live, who they will see or keep in touch with in their family and how the child’s health, education and other needs are going to be met. They are recorded in the child’s care plan which will be reviewed often.

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