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Nottingham City Safeguarding Children’s Board Procedures Manual
Nottingham City Safeguarding Children’s Board Procedures Manual Nottingham City Safeguarding Children’s Board Procedures Manual
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Designated Managers

See also 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 November 2022.


Contents

  1. Agency Decision Make (Fostering)
  2. Agency Decision Maker (Adoption)
  3. Care Plans
  4. Designated Manager (Care Proceedings - emergency applications either EPO or ICO)
  5. Care Proceedings – planned applications
  6. Change of Name
  7. Contact with Parents
  8. Death or Serious Injury to a Child
  9. Decision to Look After
  10. Emigration
  11. Exemptions and Extensions from Fostering Limit
  12. External Placements
  13. Fostering Panel Appointments
  14. Leaving Care
  15. Marriage / Civil Partnership
  16. Notifications
  17. Passports
  18. Placement Orders
  19. Private Fostering
  20. Secure Accommodation
  21. Special Guardianship
  22. Special Guardianship Support
  23. Nominated Officer (Disruption of Education)
  24. Nominated Officer (Fostering for Adoption)
  25. Nominated Officer (Out of Area Placements)
  26. Nominated Officer (Immediate Placement of a Looked After Child with Connected Person)
  27. Nominated Officer (Placement of a Looked After Child subject to Care Order or Interim Care Order with Parents)


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Designated Managers with Specified Area of Responsibility Post Title and Contact Details

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: Head of Service Children in Care

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 876 2696

Agency Decision Maker (Adoption)

The Agency Decision Maker who makes decisions on adoption matters (either SHOBPA decisions or decisions required on the basis of recommendations of the Adoption Panel).

Post title: Director of Children's Integrated Services

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

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 responsibilities)

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

Designated Manager (Care Proceedings - emergency applications either EPO or ICO)

The manager who can authorise the initiating of Care Proceedings.

Post title:Head of Service (for the area holding case responsibilities)

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

Designated Manager (Care Proceedings – planned applications)

The manager who can authorise the initiating of Care Proceedings.

Post title: Service Manager (for the team holding case responsibilities)

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

Designated Manager (Change of Name)

The manager who can authorise the change of name of a Looked After Child.

Post title: Director of Children's Integrated Services

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

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 responsibilities)

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

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: Head of Service (for the area holding case responsibilities) or Director of Childrens Integrated Services Duty Service Manager; out of hours.

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

Designated Manager (Decision to Look After)

The manager who can authorise a child becoming Looked After.

Post title: Head of Service (for the area holding case responsibilities)

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

Designated Manager (Emigration)

The manager who can authorise the placement of a Looked after child outside England and Wales.

Post title: Director of Children's Integrated Services with the Director of Children’s Services

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

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: Head of Children in Care

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

Designated Manager (External Placements)

The manager who can authorise placements of Looked After children with external providers of residential care or foster carers from an independent fostering agency.

Post title: Director of Children's Integrated Services with the Director of Children’s Services

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

Designated Manager (Fostering Panel Appointments)

The manager who can authorise appointments to the Central List of Fostering Panel members

Post title: Fostering Panel Advisor

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 876 2696

Designated Manager (Leaving Care)

The manager who can approve a Pathway Plan.

Post title: Team Manager/Service Manager, Children in Care

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

Designated Manager (Marriage / Civil Partnership)

The manager who can authorise the marriage / civil partnership of a Looked After child.

Post title: Director of Children's Integrated Services with the Director of Children’s Services

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

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: Children's Placements Manager

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

Designated Manager (Passports)

The manager who can authorise a passport application for a Looked After child.

Post title: Service Manager (for the team holding case responsibilities)

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

Designated Manager (Placement Orders)

The manager who can authorise an application for a Placement Order.

Post title: Head of Service (for the area holding case responsibilities)

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

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: Service Manager - South Fieldwork

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

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 Childrens Integrated Services with Director of Children’s Services

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

Designated Manager (Special Guardianship)

The manager who can authorise Special Guardianship as the permanence plan for a Looked After child.

Post title: Head of Service (for the area holding case responsibilities)

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

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: Head of Service (for the area holding case responsibilities)

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

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: Service Manager (for the team holding case responsibilities)

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

Nominated Officer (Fostering for Adoption)

The person who can authorise Fostering for Adoption.

Post title: Director of Children's Integrated Services (adoption agency decision maker)

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

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: Head of Service (for the area holding case responsibilities) or Director of Childrens Integrated Services with the Director of Children’s Services (where placement is at a distance i.e. more than 20 miles)

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

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: Head of Children in Care – fostering agency decision maker

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

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: Director of Childrens Integrated Services

Contact details:
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Tel: 0115 915 5555

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