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Children's policy and procedure pack.
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Written to the Quality Standards, including the things inspectors look for first and competitors leave out. Everything we would use ourselves, without us attached.
What it is for
A children's home is judged on whether the children are doing better than they were. Policies matter to the extent that they make that more likely.
Generic policy sets written for adult services and adjusted are visible immediately, because children's services turn on different things: how a home responds when a child goes missing, how restraint is understood and recorded, how a child raises something and what happens next, how education and health are actually chased rather than logged.
These are written to the Quality Standards and structured around those moments. The aim is that a member of staff on shift, dealing with something difficult, could be handed the relevant procedure and know what to do with it, because that is the only test that matters.
They are editable because a home has a character. A policy set that has not been made yours reads as though nobody has thought about the children who actually live there.
What would an inspection find?
Run the check before you buy anything. It will tell you whether policies are actually your weak point.
Who it is for
And who it is not for.
New and registering homes
Needing a complete set that matches the statement of purpose rather than sitting alongside it saying something slightly different.
Homes with an inherited set
Policies that came with the building, or were adapted from an adult service, and have not been read properly since. That is usually found before anything else.
Not a fix for a home in trouble
If there is enforcement action or a serious concern about the care of a child, new documents will not answer it. What is needed there is evidence that practice has changed.
What it does not do
Worth saying plainly, because most people buying a policy pack are hoping otherwise.
It does not make you compliant. Buying policies changes nothing on its own. They have to be adapted, adopted, trained out, and followed, and the last of those is the only one that gets you anywhere.
It does not replace the statement of purpose. The policies have to be consistent with what you said the home is for. If the two documents disagree, the disagreement is the finding.
It does not do your governance. Policies say what should happen. Audits, supervision and Regulation 44 are what tell you whether it does.
It is not legal advice. Where something turns on your legal obligations in a specific situation, including anything involving a child's rights or a placing authority, take advice on that situation.
The test of a policy is not whether it exists. It is whether a member of staff who has never read it would do the same thing the policy describes. In a children's home that test is usually applied by an inspector talking to a child, not by anybody reading the folder.
Price to confirm
Pricing for the packs is not settled yet and nothing here is an offer. There is no checkout on this site.
If you want to know what is in it in detail, or whether it is the right thing for your situation, ask us. We would rather tell you it is not what you need than sell you the wrong document.
Ask which one you need. It is a much shorter conversation.
Thirty minutes, no charge, no obligation. Tell us what your home does and we will tell you whether this pack helps or whether something else would.
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