Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes.
- Identify appropriate strategies for investigation and assessment
- Identify key agencies and personnel to be involved in investigation and assessment
- Consult with each agency and individual practitioners to define roles and responsibilities
- Collect and share relevant agency information
- Assess and clarify range issues to be addressed in response to the child’s identified needs
- Identify and respond appropriately to specific client characteristics including cultural, family and community issues
- Liaise and consult with other agencies and personnel within organisation and reference appropriate interagency frameworks and protocols
- Identify and assess potential risks to child, family and others
- Assess and evaluate a range of intervention options according to the needs of the child and situation
- Select and implement the strategy
- Use child protection frameworks to select and agree to the strategy for the investigation
- Plan and support the implementation of practical arrangements
- Implement the strategy that best meets the needs of the child and secures the safety and wellbeing of the child
- Facilitate and support appropriate referrals as required
- Record actions for strategy implementation according to organisation and interagency framework
- Monitor and review the strategy
- Define negotiable and non-negotiable aspects of the response strategy and implement processes to ensure these are maintained and monitored
- Revise strategy in response to new information and changing circumstances
- Manage communication between agencies for monitoring and review of strategy during and following action
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the investigation and strategy, with reference to all agencies involved