7.2 List of Agency Decision Makers, Designated Managers and Nominated Officers
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Delegation of Authority to Foster Carers and Residential Workers Procedure
NOTE
Consent to life-ending withdrawal of medical support for a child will require an application to the High Court even if all relevant parties are in agreement. Legal advice must be sought as a matter of urgency.
AMENDMENT
This listing was updated in February 2022.Designated Managers with Specified Area of Responsibility
| Designated Managers with Specified Area of Responsibility | Post Title and Contact Details |
Agency Decision Maker (Adoption)The Agency Decision Maker who makes decisions on all adoption matters (some of which will be made on the basis of a recommendation of the Adoption Panel). |
Post title: Agency Decision Maker (Adoption) Contact details: One Angel Square Tel: 01604 361790 |
Agency Decision Maker (Fostering)The Agency Decision Maker who makes decisions on fostering matters (on the basis of recommendations of the Fostering Panel). |
Post title: Agency Decision Maker (Fostering) Contact details: One Angel Square Tel: 01604 361790 |
Designated Manager (Adoption Panel Appointments)The manager who can authorise appointments to the Central List of Adoption Panel members. |
Post title: Panel Advisor Contact details: One Angel Square Tel: 01604 361790 |
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: Strategic Manager for Corporate Parenting Contact details: One Angel Square Tel: 01604 361790 |
Designated Manager (Care Plans)The manager who can authorise the final Care Plan to be taken before the Court within Care Proceedings. |
Post title: Service Manager (for the team holding case responsibility) Contact details: Via the team holding case responsibility. |
Designated Manager (Care Proceedings)The manager who can authorise the initiating of Care Proceedings. |
Post title: Children's Services Service Manager Contact details: Via the team holding case responsibility. |
Designated Manager (Change of Name)The manager who can authorise the change of name of a Looked After Child. |
Post title: Service Manager (for the team holding case responsibility) Contact details: Via the team holding case responsibility. |
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: Service Manager (for the team holding case responsibility) Contact details: Via the team holding case responsibility. |
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: Director of Children's Social Care Contact details: One Angel Square |
Designated Manager (Funeral Arrangements)The manager who can agree funeral arrangements following the death of a looked after child. |
Post title: Look After Child Service Manager If the service manager is unavailable, a team manager for the LAC service can agree arrangements. Contact details: Grafton Court |
Designated Manager (Decision to Look After)The manager who can authorise a child becoming Looked After. |
Post title: Children's Services Assistant Director Contact details: Via the team holding case responsibility. |
Designated Manager (Emergency Protection Orders)The manager who can authorise an application for an Emergency Protection Order. |
Post title: Children's Services Assistant Director Contact details: Via the team holding case responsibility. |
Designated Manager (Emigration)The manager who can authorise the placement of a Looked after child outside England and Wales. |
Post title: Children's Services Strategic Manager Contact details: Via the team holding case responsibility. |
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: Assistant Director Corporate Parenting Contact details: One Angel Square Tel: 01604 368880 |
Designated Manager (Fostering Panel Appointments)The manager who can authorise appointments to the Central List of Fostering Panel members |
Post title: Panel Advisor: Contact details: One Angel Square Tel: 01604 361790 |
Designated Manager (Leaving Care)The manager who can approve a Pathway Plan. |
Post title: Team Manager Leaving Care Contact details: Via Leaving Care Team |
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: MASH Team Manager |
Designated Manager (Passports)The manager who can authorise a passport application for a Looked After child. |
Post title: Service Manager (for the team holding responsibility) Contact details: Via the team holding case responsibility. |
Designated Manager (Placement Orders)The manager who can authorise an application for a Placement Order. |
Post title: Service Manager (for the team holding responsibility) Contact details: Via the team holding case responsibility. |
Designated Manager (Private Fostering)The manager who can approve assessments of private foster carers, impose requirements on private foster carers or decide to prohibit someone from acting as a private foster carer. |
Post title: Strategic Manager Safeguarding Contact details: Via the team holding case responsibility. |
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; and/or A child's continued secure placement on the recommendation of the Secure Accommodation Review Panel; and/or Applications to renewal Secure Accommodation Orders on the recommendation of the Secure Accommodation Review Panel. |
Post title: Director of Children's Social Care Contact details: One Angel Square |
Designated Manager (Special Guardianship)The manager who can authorise Special Guardianship as the permanence plan for a Looked After child. |
Post title: Children's Services Service Manager Contact details: Via the team holding case responsibility. |
Designated Manager (Special Guardianship Support)The manager who can authorise the level of special guardianship support to be provided, including financial support to special guardians. |
Post title: Strategic Manager for Corporate Parenting Contact details: One Angel Square Tel: 01604 361790 |
Designated Manager (Section 17 Payment)Depending on the amount being approved, payment authorisation must be obtained from the either the:
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Values and Approval Levels: Petty Cash Taxi Ad hoc forms Interfaced Payment and Purchase Orders |
Designated Manager (Care Packages for Disabled Children)The Service Manager of the Disabled Children Team. |
Post title: Service Manager of the Disabled Children's Team Contact details: One Angel Square |
Designated Manager (Funding for Specialist Therapy / Assessment)A Service Manager or Team Manger depending on the cost. |
Post title: Adoption, Permanence and Post Order – Service Manager or Team Manager for post order support. Contact details: One Angel Square |
Designated Manager (Decision to Apply for a Child Assessment Order)A Strategic Manager |
Post title: Strategic Manager as chair of the Admissions and Legal Planning Panels |
Designated Manager (Decision to Apply for Discharge or Variation of a Care or Supervision Order)A Strategic Manager |
Post title: Strategic Manager as chair of the Admissions and Legal Planning Panels |
Designated Manager (Decision to Accommodate in Order to Protect a Child)A Strategic Manager as chair of the New Admissions and Legal Planning Panel) In an emergency, if the Safeguarding and Care Planning Strategic Manager is an unavailable, a decision can be made by a Safeguarding and Care Planning Service Manager. |
Post title: Strategic Manager as chair of the Admissions and Legal Planning Panels |
Designated Manager (Decision to Withhold Whereabouts of a Child)Chair of Placement Planning Meeting (Service Manager). |
Post title: Service Manager (for the team holding responsibility) Contact details: Via the team holding case responsibility. |
Decision for Intermediary Services
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Post title: Adoption and SGO Support Team Duty Contact details: Tel: 01604 367301 |
Nominated Officer (Disruption of Education)The manager who can authorise the change of placement affecting a Looked After child in Key Stage 4. |
Post title: Assistant Director (for the team holding case responsibility) Contact details: One Angel Square |
Nominated Officer (Fostering for Adoption)The person who can authorise Fostering for Adoption. |
Post title: Strategic Manager for Corporate Parenting Contact details: One Angel Square Tel: 01604 361790 |
Nominated Officer (Out of Area Placements)The manager who can authorise the placement of a Looked After child outside the area of the local authority. |
Post title:
Contact details: Via the team holding case responsibility;
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Nominated Officer (Immediate Placement of a Looked After Child with Connected Person)The manager who can authorise the placement of a Looked After child with a family or friend ('Connected Person') who is not already approved as a foster carer. |
Post title: Service Manager for Fostering (or Service Manager for Adoption) Contact details: One Angel Square Tel: 01604 361790 |
Nominated Officer (Placement of a Looked After Child subject to Care Order or Interim Care Order with Parents)The manager who can authorise the placement of a Looked After child with a parent, person with Parental Responsibility or person who held a Residence Order/Child Arrangements Order specifying with whom the child was to reside immediately before the Care Order. |
Post title: Assistant Director Contact details: One Angel Square Tel: 01604 361790 |
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