Last name/First nameLOOKING AFTER CHILDRENREVIEWOF CARE AND PLACEMENT PLANIn preparing to Review the Care and Placement Plan, please read the information in the Care and Placement Plan Record as this also applies to the Review of the Care and Placement Plan.

When you Review the Care and Placement Plan you will consider:

If the actions and services to meet the child/young person’s needs in the most recent Care and Placement Plan have occurred.

If the actions and services have met the child/young person’s needs.

Any new information about the child/young person in each life area.

What plans are required to meet the child/young person’s needs, both ongoing and recently emerged?

The first Review of the Care and Placement Plan is completed within four weeks of a child/young person’s Care and Placement Plan. The second review is completed four months after the child/young person has come into out of home care. After this, there is a Review of the Care and Placement Plan each 6 months. This is so even if the child/young person has not remained in the one placement.

While it is the Placement Agency Case Worker’s (PACW’s) responsibility to Review the Care and Placement Plan for the child/young person in placement, they are unable to do this without discussion with the child/young person’s family, the carer/s or residential worker/s, the child protection worker, others who have been involved with the child/young person and, depending on their age, the child/young person. Those with the most knowledge of and responsibility for the child/young person need to review the goals they have made and establish a plan for the future.

New Information about the child/young person

In this area of the record you will record a summary of the new information that has emerged about the child/young person in each life area and consider the needs that the information raises. For example, in the area of health you would record any new health conditions diagnosed, any periods of hospitalisations, any concerns that require follow up, the general health of the child/young person since the last Care and Placement Plan or Review.

The summary of new information will partly come from the child/young person’s Essential Information Record and, if it has been completed, the child/young person’s Assessment and Action Record. It is important to check and update the child/young persons Essential Information Record before beginning the Review. It is also important to attach the Assessment and Action Record “Summary of work to be undertaken” to the Review document.

Case Progress Reports There are some children and young people in out of home care where the Department of Human Services contracts the implementation of the Statutory Case Plan to either the Placement Agency or to another agency or program – e.g. Intensive Case Management Service (ICMS). DHS requires Case

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Last name/First nameProgress Reports on a regular basis for these children and young people. In addition to the Review of the Care and Placement Plan which must be completed for all children and young people in out of home care, the case planning chairperson may also require a Case Progress Report which includes:

A casework overview specifying the contact between the PACW and the child and family, and the child and his/her family. A case plan progress and evaluation report detailing the work that has occurred towards the case planning goals and including

recommendations regarding the ongoing appropriateness of the case planning goals. A risk assessment report detailing the ongoing risk and safety issues that would exist for the child/young person if they were to return home.

The decision to contract the implementation of the case plan for a child/young person is a case planning decision. In discussion with the CSO, the DHS case planning chairperson will specify:

The frequency with which Case Progress Reports are required The areas that need to be included in the Case Progress Report.

Transition Planning is required for children and young people where a decision has been made that the child/young person will leave the placement to return home, go to another placement or move to live independently. The Care and Placement Plan and Review Record and process can be used to develop Transition Planning.

Transition Planning for Young People Leaving Care to Live IndependentlyTransition Planning must describe how the young person will be assisted to develop the life skills to be able to live independently. It will include the support services the young person will need when they leave the placement, for as the young person sets out on their own they will need a range of people to support them.

Transition Planning in this context needs to start early and be regularly reviewed and up-dated. Young people need time to develop strong relationships with those who will be supporting and assisting them when they move to live independently. They need the opportunity to develop and strengthen these relationships from within their out of home care placement. They need time to become confident and familiar with the information they will need (how to sign a lease, how to get an electrician etc.) and the issues they will have to resolve (housing, income etc.).

Key information regarding children and young people in Out of Home careThe Review of the Care and Placement Plan Record asks you to record some key pieces of information about the child/young person. The purpose of asking you to record this information is: To inform your review of this particular child/young person’s needs and the way they are being met. To be used by your manager as a snapshot of how your agency is meeting some of the more significant needs of this child/young person. To gain a picture of the population of children and young people in out of home care both within your agency, in your region and across the state of

Victoria.

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CHILD/YOUNG PERSON’S DETAILS Name of child/young person:

Gender:

Date of Birth //

Is the child/young person Aboriginal /Torres Strait Islander? No/Yes

Child/young person is also known as:

Age

Group Members

This client belongs to a group. For specific information on a group member please refer to their individual document.

Group Name(s) Member Name(s)

{If the on screen client does not belong to a group, or no group member is selected when generating the document, this section will be suppress.}

PLACEMENT DETAILSCarer(s) name(s):Carer type:

Home based carer or key residential worker

Placement agency case worker:

Placement agency:

Placement service:

Placement type: Foster care, ACP etc.

Date the child/young person came into out of home care:(or commenced planned respite arrangement )

Date this placement started:

Placement status:

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CHILD PROTECTION CONTACT DETAILSAllocated child protection worker:

Contact details: Has case management been contracted to a CSO? No/Yes

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Team leader: Contact details:

Agency name:Service name:CSO case manager name: Contact information:

DHS region with Child Protection responsibility for this child:Date of the most recent Care and Placement Plan/Review: //Date of this Review of the Care and Placement Plan: //

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Last name/First nameCASE PLANNING

What Legal Order currently applies to the child/young person:

Is there a forthcoming court appearance? No/Yes. If yes, date: //

Is there a current written Statutory Case Plan? No/Yes. If yes, date: // What is the current overall Case Plan?

What is the impact of the current case plan on the child/young person? You may want to comment on the impact of any case planning decisions, for example access, treatment services, ongoing home release plan.

Do you have any recommendations regarding future case planning direction?

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Last name/First namePLACEMENT

Key Information: How often has the Placement Agency Caseworker (PACW) seen the child/young person away from the carers since the last Care and

Placement Plan/Review?

Has the PACW seen the child/young person’s living and sleeping arrangements? No/Yes Is this placement able to meet the needs of the child/young person? No/Yes

What is the current purpose of the placement?

What is the current Child Protection classification of the purpose of the placement? Please outline any changes that have occurred in the placement since the last Care and Placement Plan/Review and what impact these have

had on the child/young person?

Are there any challenges that the child/young person is facing within the placement?

What is the plan for addressing these challenges?

Has a decision been made that the child/young person will leave this placement to return home, go to another placement or move to live independently? No/Yes. If yes please specify: If yes, has a transition plan been completed? No/Yes

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HEALTH

Key Information Date of the child/young person’s most recent medical examination: //

Date of the child/young person most recent dental examination //

Are the child/young person’s routine immunisations up-to-date No/Yes

Is the child/young person known to have used any of the following substances in the last six months:

Substance Frequency/SeverityAlcohol No/Yes Heroin No/YesMarijuana No/YesAmphetamines (speed) No/YesChrome No/YesOther solvents/inhalants No/YesOthers please specify No/YesNo known substances Yes

Has action commenced to meet the child/young person’s health needs identified at the most recent Care and Placement Plan or Review? No/Yes/Unknown

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Last name/First nameHEALTHWhat was the outcome of the previous plan to address the child/young persons health needs?

Child/young person’s needs

How will the needs be responded to? Who? By when? Actual Outcomes Continuing Need?

What new information has emerged about the child/young person’s health since the last Care and Placement Plan or Review? If an Assessment and Action Record has been completed, summarise key information.

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What is the new plan to address the continuing and/or newly identified needs?

Child/young person’s needs

How will the child’s needs be responded to? Who? By when? Role of Parents? Planned outcomes?

This table should be copied into the new Care and Placement Plan.

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EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIOURAL DEVELOPMENTKey InformationHas action commenced to meet the child/young person’s need for specialist intervention identified at the most recent care and placement plan or review? No/Yes/Not applicable

Is the child/young person currently receiving support /treatment service designed to address emotional and behavioural concerns? No/Yes If yes,

Take 2 No/YesSexual Abuse counselling No/YesChild Psychiatry No/YesPsychology/play therapy No/YesOther please specify

What was the outcome of the previous plan to address the child/young person’s emotional and behavioural development needs?

Child/young person’s needs

How will the needs be responded to? Who? By when? Actual Outcomes Continuing Need?

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Last name/First nameEMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIOURAL DEVELOPMENTWhat new information has emerged about the child/young person’s emotional and behavioural development since the last Care and Placement Plan or Review? If an Assessment and Action Record has been completed, summarise key information.

What is the new plan to address the continuing and/or newly identified needs?

Child/young person’s needs

How will the child’s needs be responded to? Who? By when? Role of Parents? Planned outcomes?

This table should be copied into the new Care and Placement Plan.

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EDUCATION

Key Information

For a child in the year before school age:Does the child attend pre-school? No/Yes

For a child/young person of school ageIs the child/young person enrolled at school? No/YesIf enrolled, how often has the child/young person attended school since the last review?

Every dayAt least 4 days per weekAt least 3 days per weekLess than 2 days per weekNot attended at all

Has a Student Support Group been established? No/YesIs there an up to date Individual Education Plan? No/Yes

Did the child/young person achieve the CSF level appropriate to their Grade level in English in the most recent school report? No/YesDid the child/young person achieve the CSF level appropriate to their Grade level in Maths in the most recent school report? No/YesHas the child/young person been expelled, suspended or otherwise excluded by the school since their last review? No/Yes

For a young person who has left schoolIs the young person currently engaged in further training, vocational development or employment? No/Yes

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What was the outcome of the previous plan to address the child/young person’s education needs?

Child/young person’s needs

How will the needs be responded to? Who? By When? Actual Outcomes Is there a Continuing

Need?

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Last name/First nameEDUCATIONWhat new information has emerged about the child/young person’s education since the last Care and Placement Plan or Review? If an Assessment and Action Record has been completed, summarise key information.

What is the new plan to address the child/young person’s continuing and/or newly identified needs?

Child/young person’s needs

How will the child’s needs be responded to? Who? By when? Role of Parents? Planned outcomes?

This table should be copied into the new Care and Placement Plan.

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FAMILY AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

Key information

How often does the child/young person have contact with family members?

Does the child/young person have siblings who are in a separate out of home care placement? No/YesDoes the child/young person have a significant friendship with a person of their own age outside his/her birth family? No/Yes

What was the outcome of the previous plan to address the child/young person’s family and social relationship needs?

Child/young person’s needs

How will the needs be responded to? Who? By When? Actual Outcomes Continuing Need?

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Family member FrequencyParents GrandparentsSiblingsOther extended family members

Last name/First nameFAMILY AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPSWhat new information has emerged about the child/young person’s family and social relationships since the last Care and Placement Plan or Review? If an Assessment and Action Record has been completed, summarise key information.

What is the new plan to address the child/young person’s continuing and/or newly identified needs?

Child/young person’s needs

How will the child’s needs be responded to? Who? By when? Role of Parents? Planned outcomes?

This table should be copied into the new Care and Placement Plan.

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IDENTITY

Key Information

For an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander child/young person: Is the child/young person placed with a home based carer who is Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander or with an Aboriginal residential care service?

No/Yes If not, has their current carer/key residential worker undergone culturally specific training in caring for an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander

child/young person? No/Yes Is there an up to date Cultural Plan? No/Yes

For a non-Indigenous child/young person: Is the child/young person placed with carers from the same cultural background as the child? No/Yes If not, has their current carer/key residential worker undergone culturally specific training in caring for a child from their background? No/Yes

Is a Life Story Book being kept with the child/young person? No/Yes

What was the outcome of the previous plan to address the child/young person’s identity needs?

Child/young person’s needs

How will the needs be responded to? Who? By When? Actual Outcomes Continuing Need?

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Last name/First nameIDENTITYWhat new information has emerged about the child/young person’s identity since the last Care and Placement Plan or Review? If an Assessment and Action Record has been completed, summarise key information.

What is the new plan to address the child/young person’s continuing and/or newly identified needs?

Child/young person’s needs

How will the child’s needs be responded to? Who? By when? Role of Parents? Planned outcomes?

This table should be copied into the new Care and Placement Plan.

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SOCIAL PRESENTATION

Key Information Is the child/young person currently engaged in any form of positive regular social activity with their peers? No/Yes

What was the outcome of the previous plan to address the child/young person’s social presentation needs?

Child/young person’s needs

How will the needs be responded to? Who? By When? Actual Outcomes Continuing Need?

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Last name/First nameSOCIAL PRESENTATIONWhat new information has emerged about the child/young person’s social presentation since the last Care and Placement Plan or Review? If an Assessment and Action Record has been completed, summarise key information.

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Last name/First name

What is the new plan to address the child/young person’s continuing and/or newly identified needs?

Child/young person’s needs

How will the child’s needs be responded to? Who By when Role of Parents Planned outcomes

This table should be copied into the new Care and Placement Plan.

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SELF CARE SKILLS

What was the outcome of the previous plan to address the child/young person’s self care needs?

Child/young person’s needs

How will the needs be responded to? Who? By When? Actual Outcomes Continuing Need?

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Last name/First nameSELF CARE SKILLSWhat new information has emerged about the child/young person’s self care skills since the last Care and Placement Plan or Review? If an Assessment and Action Record has been completed, summarise key information.

What is the new plan to address the child/young person’s continuing and/or newly identified needs?

Child/young person’s needs

How will the child’s needs be responded to? Who? By when? Role of Parents? Planned outcomes?

This table should be copied into the new Care and Placement Plan.

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CONSULTATION AND VIEWSHas the child/young person been involved in this Review of the Care and Placement Plan? No/Yes

If yes, how has s/he been involved?

To what extent have the views and wishes of the child/young person been obtained and acted upon? If it has not been possible to act on their views, please explain why.

If child/ young person has not been involved in this Review of the Care and Placement Plan Please explain why, and, depending on their age, how you have attempted to involve them

Has the child/young person been advised of what action they can take if they disagree with any part of this plan? No/Yes

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Have the child/young person’s parents been involved in this Review of the Care and Placement Plan? No/Yes If yes, how have they been involved?

To what extent have the views and wishes of the child/young person’s parents been obtained and acted upon? If it has not been possible to act on their views, please explain why.

If the child/ young person’s parents have not been involved in this Review of the Care and Placement Plan Please explain why, and how you have attempted to involve them

Have the child/young person’s parents been advised of what action they can take if they disagree with any part of this review? No/Yes

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Please give details if any of those involved in this review of the Care and Placement Plan disagree with any parts of it.

Is there anyone else you wanted to involve in this review of the Care and Placement Plan but were unable to?

The following people have been involved in this review of the Care and Placement Plan

Name Relationship to the child/young personPlease note who has been sent a copy of this Review record and/or the new Care and Placement Plan

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The new Care and Placement Plan will be reviewed: Time…………………………..

Date //

Venue………………………..

Name of person completing the Review recordSignature of the person completing the Review record Role of person completing the Review recordDate Review record completed: //Date new Care and Placement Plan completed: //

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