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A director provides ongoing liaison with staffed children’s residential services
to monitor for:
consistent referral, assessment, planning, treatment and discharge practices
participation in integrated case management processes as members of a
child’s team for the duration of the child’s stay
responsive program development to meet the needs of children receiving
care and their families
provision of services under their contracts, and
adherence to the Standards for Staffed Children’s Residential Services and
the fulfilment of community care licensing and accreditation requirements.
| CSS STANDARD 21: MONITORING OF AND LIAISON WITH STAFFED CHILDREN’S
RESIDENTIAL SERVICES - STANDARD
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Note: Monitoring, reviewing and supporting placements in staffed children’s
residential services is distinct from the supportive role referred to in Caregiver
Support Service Standard 15: Supportive Practice.
The director informs relevant care providers within the residential resource
about a director’s responsibilities and purpose in monitoring the child’s care.
In consultation with relevant care providers, the director develops a
monitoring schedule outlining the nature and frequency of contact. Frequency
of contact is based on the ages, vulnerabilities and number of children in the
residential resource. Contact occurs in person at a minimum of once every
three months.
In collaboration with the child’s worker, during visits to the residential
resource, the director sees and wherever possible interviews each child in care
in the residential setting about topics relating to their rights in care. The
director interviews each relevant care provider separately to discuss his or her
individual experience with and/or concern about:
the provision of a safe and nurturing environment that promotes the wellbeing of each child
carrying out his or her responsibilities in implementing the goals and
objectives identified in each child’s plan
honouring each child’s views, culture, identity, spiritual beliefs and
wishes, and for an Aboriginal child, following the cultural plan
maintaining family connections as outlined in each child’s plan The director maintains a record of all monitoring visits to the residential
resource for inclusion on the agency/service contract file, as part of contract
management and the region’s quality improvement practices.
The director advises a child’s worker of any concerns relating to a child’s care.
The director documents a child’s experience in the residential resource and
provides the child’s worker with information for documentation on the child
service file.
reviewing daily records of the care of each child
adherence of the residential resource to the Standards for Staffed
Children’s Residential Services, and
the quality of care in the residential resource.
| CSS STANDARD 21: MONITORING OF AND LIAISON WITH STAFFED CHILDREN’S
RESIDENTIAL SERVICES - POLICY
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Integrated Case Management User’s Guide
Standards for Staffed Children’s Residential Services | CSS STANDARD 21: MONITORING OF AND LIAISON WITH STAFFED CHILDREN’S
RESIDENTIAL SERVICES - ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION/
RESOURCES
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