document,metadata | |
"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 " | |
"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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