Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for children's social care services
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Education
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Education
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Place of publication:
- London
Advice about coronavirus (COVID-19) for local authorities to help support and protect vulnerable children. It includes answers to frequently asked questions in the areas of: Alternative provision, Children's safeguarding, Children's residential care, Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, Care leavers, Foster care, Adoption, and social workers in children's social care. The guidance is for local authorities, those who have corporate parenting responsibilities, and local safeguarding partnerships who work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of all children in their area. It will also be of interest to social workers, residential care providers and those with safeguarding responsibilities. Note, from the 1 October 2021. The flexibilities in the Adoption and Children (Coronavirus)(Amendment) Regulations 2020 will no longer be available. This guidance was amended in early October 2021 to reflect the new guidance that is is valid from 1 October 2021. This guidance was further amended on 10 December 2021 to reflect the introduction of ‘Plan B’ for England prioritising measures which can help control transmission of COVID-19, while seeking to minimise economic and social impacts – in line with the government’s formal COVID-19 Response: Autumn and Winter Plan 2021. This guidance was further updated on 15 December 2021 to reflect that daily testing is now recommended for contacts of COVID-19; on 6 January 2022 in relation to new guidance about confirmatory PCR tests; and on 20 January 2022 to reflect the removal of Plan B restrictions. [First published 3 April 2020. Last updated 25 February 2022]. (Edited publisher abstract)
- Subject terms:
- Covid-19, childrens social care, local authorities, vulnerable children, safeguarding children, social workers, looked after children;
- Content types:
- practice guidance, government publication
- Location(s):
- England
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