where a risk assessment has identified specific immediate risks to the Looked After Child or to others if they are away from their placement. Missing definition - whereabouts cannot be ‘Anyone established and where the circumstances are out of character or the context suggests the person may be subject of crime or at risk to themselves or another.’ High risk risk posed is immediate and there are substantial – ‘The grounds for believing that the subject is in danger through their own vulnerability; or may have been the victim of a serious crime; or the risk posed is immediate and there are substantial grounds for believing that the public is in danger.’ Actions Action Owner Stage 3 Risk Assessment – – CODE RED Upgrade code amber to Code Red if the following indicators / risk factors become apparent Information emerges which The Residential Manager / Residential Unit suggest the child is in the Staff should contact Police Staff / Carer company of peers, or with updated information adults, who may exploit his PSNI CMC & IO & /her vulnerabilities which Ensure Actions as per Residential Unit will place them in Code have been Staff / Carer AMBER immediate danger undertaken Information emerges that the child is being removed from placement or being Consider convening an Residential Unit prevented from returning Emergency LAC Review or Manger / Statutory to the placement planning meeting SW and PSNI MPO Where the time frame is moving into late night, early hours of the morning PSNI & to record / PSNI & Change in weather manage / investigate the conditions and child / YP missing incident as per not clothed appropriately Agency Procedure and Policy
where a risk assessment has identified specific immediate risks to the Looked After Child or to others if they are away from their placement. Missing definition - ‘Anyone whereabouts cannot be established and where the circumstances are out of character or the context suggests the person may be subject of crime or at risk to themselves or another.’ High risk – ‘The risk posed is immediate and there are substantial grounds for believing that the subject is in danger through their own vulnerability; or may have been the victim of a serious crime; or the risk posed is immediate and there are substantial grounds for believing that the public is in danger.’ Stage 3 – Risk Assessment – CODE RED Actions Action Owner Upgrade code amber to Code Red if the following indicators / risk factors become apparent Information emerges which suggest the child is in the company of peers, or adults, who may exploit his /her vulnerabilities which will place them in immediate danger Information emerges that the child is being removed from placement or being prevented from returning to the placement Where the time frame is moving into late night, early hours of the morning Change in weather conditions and child / YP not clothed appropriately The Residential Manager / Staff should contact Police with updated information Ensure Actions as per Code AMBER have been undertaken Consider convening an Emergency LAC Review or planning meeting PSNI & to record / manage / investigate the missing incident as per Agency Procedure and Policy Residential Unit Staff / Carer PSNI CMC & IO & Residential Unit Staff / Carer Residential Unit Manger / Statutory SW and PSNI MPO PSNI &
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