Best interests case practice

Best interests case practice advice

• Best interests case practice model
  Advice no: 1481. Access the summary guide.
• Information gathering in best interests case practice
  Advice number: 1587 | Advice date: 5 November 2012
  Description : This advice provides Child Protection practitioners and managers with information and practice requirements regarding information gathering in the context of the Best Interests Case Practice Model (the model) specifically for Child Protection case practice.
• Analysis and assessment in best interests case practice
  Advice number: 1535 | Advice date: 5 November 2012
  Description : This advice provides child protection practitioners and managers with information and practice requirements regarding analysis and assessment in the context of the best interests case practice model (the model) specifically for Child Protection case practice.
• Planning in best interests case practice
  Advice number: 1282 | Advice date: 5 November 2012
  Description : This Advice provides child protection practitioners and managers with information and practice requirements regarding case planning in the context of the Best Interests Case Practice Model specifically for Child Protection case practice.
• Case planning flowchart
  Advice number: 1280 | Advice date: 5 November 2012
  Description : This Advice contains a flowchart of the case planning process.
• Actions in best interests case practice
  Advice number: 1537 | Advice date: 5 November 2012
  Description : This advice provides Child Protection practitioners and managers with information and practice requirements regarding actions in context of the Best Interest Case Practice Model specifically for Child Protection case practice.
• Reviewing outcomes in best interests case practice
  Advice number: 1588 | Advice date: 5 November 2012
  Description : This advice provides Child Protection practitioners and managers with information and practice requirements regarding the reviewing of outcomes in the context of the best interest case practice model specifically for Child Protection case practice.

Health related assessments

• Medical and forensic examinations for the assessment of risk and harm
  Advice number: 1104 | Advice date: 5 November 2012
  Description : This Advice outlines the considerations and procedures to be followed when a medical or forensic medical examination is required for the assessment of risk of harm.
• Medical examinations and treatment for health and wellbeing
  Advice number: 1482 | Advice date: 5 November 2012
  Description : This Advice focuses on the child protection practitioner’s responsibility to consider the child’s broader ongoing health needs whilst maintaining a focus on risk.
• Consent to medical examinations and treatment
  Advice number: 1109 | Advice date: 5 November 2012
  Description : This Advice outlines the delegation regarding who may consent to various medical examinations and treatment of clients depending upon the legal status of the client.
• Hospital admission and discharge where the child's condition is suspicious or unclear
  Advice number: 1110 | Advice date: 5 November 2012
  Description : This Advice outlines the practice requirements where a child with whom Child Protection is involved is admitted to hospital with a non-accidental or suspicious injury or undetermined illness.
• Authorisation for CSOs to provide medical consent
  Advice no: 1112 Information about this topic is contained in Advice number 1471, Authority of CSOs to give medical consent for children in out of home care.
• Administration of medication to children in care including in secure welfare services
  Advice No 1113. Information about this topic is contained in Advice number 1463, Administration of medication.
• Mental health assessments and treatment
  Advice number: 1483 | Advice date: 5 November 2012
  Description : This Advice describes the purpose of mental health assessments of parents or children and how they are utilised in best interests assessments and planning.
• Drug and alcohol assessments
  Advice number: 1117 | Advice date: 5 November 2012
  Description : This Advice describes the purpose of parental drug and alcohol assessments and how they are utilised in Child Protection assessments and case plans.
• Use of drug screens in Child Protection assessment
  Advice number: 1504 | Advice date: 5 November 2012
  Description : This Advice describes the purpose of drug and alcohol screens and how they are utilised in Child Protection assessment.

Further case planning procedures and considerations

• Case planning for children in out of home care
  Advice number: 1284 | Advice date: 5 November 2012
  Description : This Advice provides Child Protection practitioners and managers with an overview of the planning process and components of a case plan, for children who are in out of home care.
• Family decision-making
  Advice number: 1296 | Advice date: 15 March 2013
  Description : This Advice provides information to child protection practitioners and managers about family decision-making through the use of family group conferences (FGC) (also known as family decision-making meetings) and the Aboriginal Family Decision-Making (AFDM) program.
• Best interests planning for Aboriginal children
  Advice no: 1287. Information about this topic is contained in Advice number 1059 'Responding to Aboriginal children'.
• Review of Child Protection decisions
  Advice number: 1294 | Advice date: 14 January 2013
  Description : This Advice provides information for Child Protection practitioners and managers regarding the internal review of Child Protection decisions by regional senior officers.
• Planning for leaving care
  Advice no: 1297. Information about this topic is contained in Advice number 1418, 'Planning for leaving care'.
• Suicide and self harming behaviours - planning and management
  Advice number: 1301 | Advice date: 5 November 2012
  Description : This Advice provides information and the practice requirements regarding management of children who engage in self-harming behaviours or threats of suicide.
• Clients with sexually abusive behaviours
  Advice no: 1302. See Best interests case practice model specialist practice resource: 'Adolescents with sexually abusive behaviours and their families'.
• Pre-birth planning for unborn children reported to Child Protection
  Advice no: 1303. Information about this topic is contained in Advice number 1144, 'Reports regarding unborn children'.
• Planning requirements for high risk infants
  Advice no: 1304. Information about this topic is contained in Advice number 1012, 'High risk infants (HRI) - practice requirements', located in ‘Practice context’.
• Case contracting processes
  Advice number: 1315 | Advice date: 5 November 2012
  Description : This Advice provides information and the practice requirements related to case contracting processes. A case contract is a formal arrangement in the form of a written agreement, between Child Protection and another agency for the provision of case management for a child subject to a protection order.