Designated Manager (Adoption Support)
The manager who can authorise the level of adoption support to be provided to children, adopters (including financial support) and their family or birth family members. |
Post title: Head of Professional Standards
Deputy: Practice Manager of Adoption |
Designated Manager (Care Plans)
The manager who can authorise the final Care Plan to be taken before the Court within Care Proceedings. |
Post title: Operational Head of Service |
Designated Manager (Care Proceedings)
The manager who can authorise the initiating of Care Proceedings. |
Post title: Deputy Director, Safeguarding and Early Help, Children's Services |
Designated Manager (Change of Name)
The manager who can authorise the change of name of a Looked After Child. |
Post title: Deputy Director, Safeguarding and Early Help, Children's Services |
Designated Manager (Contact with Parents)
The manager who can authorise the suspension or termination of contact between a Looked After child and his or her parents (subject to the Court's approval after 7 days for children on Emergency Protection Orders, Interim Care Orders or Care Orders). |
Post title: Team Managers |
Designated Manager (Death or Serious Injury to a Child)
The senior manager who should be notified in the event of death or serious injury to a child. |
Post title: Deputy Director, Safeguarding and Early Help, Children's Services
Deputy: Head of Professional Standards |
Designated Manager (Decision to Look After)
The manager who can authorise a child becoming Looked After. |
Post title: Deputy Director, Safeguarding and Early Help, Children's Services
Deputy: Operational Head of Service |
Designated Manager (Emergency Protection Orders)
The manager who can authorise an application for an Emergency Protection Order. |
Post title: Deputy Director, Safeguarding and Early Help, Children's Services
Deputy: Operational Head of Service |
Designated Manager (Emigration)
The manager who can authorise the placement of a Looked after child outside England and Wales. |
Post title: Deputy Director, Safeguarding and Early Help, Children's Services |
Designated Manager (Exemptions and Extensions from Fostering Limit)
The manager who can authorise any exemptions from the usual fostering limit for foster carers living in the local authority area. |
Post title: Operational Head of Service
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Designated Manager (External Placements)
The manager who can authorise placements of Looked After children with external providers of residential care or foster carers from an independent fostering agency. |
Post title: Operational Head of Service |
Designated Manager (Fostering Panel Appointments)
The manager who can authorise appointments to the Central List of Fostering Panel members. |
Post title: Adoption Agency Panel Advisor and Panel Chair
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Designated Manager (Leaving Care)
The manager who can approve a Pathway Plan. |
Post title: Managers in Leaving Care Team |
Designated Manager (Marriage / Civil Partnership)
The manager who can authorise the marriage / civil partnership of a Looked After child. |
Post title: Deputy Director, Safeguarding and Early Help, Children's Services |
Designated Manager (Notifications)
Where a Looked After Child from another local authority has been placed in the area, the manager to whom the notification should be sent. |
Post title: Head of Professional Standards
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Designated Manager (Passports)
The manager who can authorise a passport application for a Looked After child. |
Post title: Managers
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Designated Manager (Placement Orders)
The manager who can authorise an application for a Placement Order. |
Post title: Managers
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Designated Manager (Secure Accommodation)
The manager who can authorise:
A placement of a Looked After child in secure accommodation for up to 72 hours without a Secure Accommodation Order; and/or
An application for a Secure Accommodation Order. |
Post title: Deputy Director, Safeguarding and Early Help, Children's Services |
A child's continued secure placement on the recommendation of the Secure Accommodation Review Panel. |
Post title: Head of Professional Standards, Manager Conference and Review Service |
Applications to renewal Secure Accommodation Orders on the recommendation of the Secure Accommodation Review Panel. |
Post title: Operational Head of Service |
Designated Manager (Special Guardianship)
The manager who can authorise Special Guardianship as the permanence plan for a Looked After child. |
Post title: Operational Head of Service
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