What are thresholds documents?
This document provides a framework for professionals who are working with children, young people and families; it aims to help you identify when a child may need additional support to achieve their full potential.
What is the threshold for a child protection plan?
These children are suffering or are likely to suffer significant harm. This is the threshold for child protection. These children are likely to have already experienced adverse effects and to be suffering from poor outcomes. Their needs may not be considered by their parents.
What is the threshold criteria for care proceedings?
The Threshold Stage – there must be sufficient reasons to justify making a care or supervision Order. This can only be passed if the Court agrees that: Things have happened which have already caused significant harm to a child. There is a serious risk that significant harm will be suffered in the future.
What is a local authority threshold document?
The threshold statement is the form in which the local authority briefly summarises the acts or omissions of the child’s carers (usually parents) that it says have led to the child suffering or being at risk of suffering significant harm.
What are the benefits of a threshold document?
It introduces a continuum of help and support, provides information on the levels of need and gives examples of some of the indicators that a child or young person may need additional support. Remember – where there is an urgent and immediate need to protect a child, dial 999 to contact the Police.
What the threshold document is and how this is used?
This document is a guide and a starting point to assist practitioners to come to a common understanding. It provides help and guidance to practitioners at all levels, working in the statutory, public, voluntary and independent sectors who work with children and their families.
What is legal threshold?
: a point of beginning. : a minimum requirement for further action. ;specif. : a determination (as of fact or the existence of a reasonable doubt) upon which something else (as further consideration or a right of action) hinges [the for inquiry]
Why do local authorities have a threshold document?
It is for the local authority to prove, on a balance of probabilities, the facts upon which it seeks to rely. Not only that, but the local authority needs to establish the link between facts relied upon in a threshold document and the conclusion that the child has suffered, or is at risk of suffering, significant harm.
What is the welfare checklist family law?
A list of factors set out in section 1(3) of the Children Act 1989 (CA 1989) that a court has to consider before making, varying or discharging a contested section 8 order or making, varying or discharging a special guardianship order.
What is the welfare test?
The Welfare Test The court will consider in particular the following issues: the ascertainable wishes and feelings of the child concerned (considered in the light of the child’s age and understanding);
What are the four thresholds levels?
2.1 Level 1 – Universal Services. Children and young people with no additional needs and where there are no concerns.
What does a threshold mean in court?