Warm/supportive relationship Occasional periods of relationship Relationship difficulties between Relationships between between that supports difficulties impact on the child/parent significantly inhibits child/parent broken down to the the child’s development. the child's emotional/ extent that child is at risk of emotional/behavioural/social behavioural/social development; if significant harm,e.g.parent rejects development. unaddressed, could lead to child from home. relationship breakdown. Parent sets consistent boundaries Parent struggles to set age Parent can’t judge dangerous Parent can’t judge dangerous and gives guidance. appropriate boundaries; has situations and/or can’t set situations/can’t set appropriate difficulties maintaining the child’s appropriate boundaries. boundaries and the child is routine. frequently exposed to dangerous situations in the home/community. Positive family network; good Lack of support from extended Weak/negative family network; Highly volatile/broken down family friendships outside the family unit. family network impacts on the destructive/unhelpful involvement network impacting parent’s capacity. from the extended family. seriously/adversely on the Child not privately fostered OR is Some concern about private Some concern about private Concern that the child is a victim privately fostered by adults fostering arrangements in place fostering arrangements in place of CSE/trafficking/domestic providing for their needs; no for the child. for the child, e.g. issues around slavery/physical abuse in their the carers’ treatment; local private foster placement. safeguarding concerns; local authority not notified of the private authority notified - see ‘The fostering arrangement. Children Regulations 2005 (Private Arrangements For Fostering)’. Child/parents are respectful Child/parents strong support for Child/parents express strong Child/parents planning to travel to for/tolerant of different beliefs an extremist support for extremist views; a conflict zone; evidence organisation/movement but don’t generalised, non-specific intention suggesting that they are going to express intention to be actively to travel to a conflict zone in support/participate in extremist involved. support of those views. activities. Meeting the practical needs of the child Parent provides Parent occasionally provides Parent/ carer regularly provides Parent consistently fails to provide inappropriate/inadequate inappropriate/inadequate appropriate/adequate provisions appropriately. food/drink/warmth/shelter. food/drink/warmth/shelter. for food/drink/warmth/shelter.
Warm/supportive relationship between that supports the child’s emotional/behavioural/social development. Occasional periods of relationship difficulties impact on the development. Relationship difficulties between child/parent significantly inhibits the child's emotional/ behavioural/social development; if unaddressed, could lead to relationship breakdown. Relationships between child/parent broken down to the extent that child is at risk of significant harm,e.g.parent rejects child from home. Parent sets consistent boundaries and gives guidance. Parent struggles to set age appropriate boundaries; has difficulties maintaining the child’s routine. Parent can’t judge dangerous situations and/or can’t set appropriate boundaries. Parent can’t judge dangerous situations/can’t set appropriate boundaries and the child is frequently exposed to dangerous situations in the home/community. Positive family network; good friendships outside the family unit. Lack of support from extended family network impacts on the parent’s capacity. Weak/negative family network; destructive/unhelpful involvement from the extended family. Highly volatile/broken down family network impacting seriously/adversely on the Child not privately fostered OR is privately fostered by adults providing for their needs; no safeguarding concerns; local authority notified - see ‘The Children Regulations 2005 (Private Arrangements For Fostering)’. Some concern about private fostering arrangements in place for the child. Some concern about private fostering arrangements in place for the child, e.g. issues around the carers’ treatment; local authority not notified of the private fostering arrangement. Concern that the child is a victim of CSE/trafficking/domestic slavery/physical abuse in their private foster placement. Child/parents are respectful for/tolerant of different beliefs Child/parents strong support for an extremist organisation/movement but don’t express intention to be actively involved. Child/parents express strong support for extremist views; generalised, non-specific intention to travel to a conflict zone in support of those views. Child/parents planning to travel to a conflict zone; evidence suggesting that they are going to support/participate in extremist activities. Meeting the practical needs of the child Parent provides appropriately. Parent occasionally provides inappropriate/inadequate food/drink/warmth/shelter. Parent/ carer regularly provides inappropriate/inadequate food/drink/warmth/shelter. Parent consistently fails to provide appropriate/adequate provisions for food/drink/warmth/shelter.
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