ICS: Practice resources
This page contains a detailed set of practice and management resources supporting the Integrated Children's System including the ICS exemplars and a section on involving children.
Resources supporting the wider Every Child Matters: Change for Children agenda are available through the Resources and Practice database. Click to go to the Resources and Practice database or to access technical resources on the ICS.
Resources
Making Use of Information in Children's Social Services
Making Use of Information in Children's Social Services is the
final report of a 3-year project with six local authorities in Wales. The
project identified some of the key obstacles to the use and flow of
information, many of which will need to be addressed in order to support the
implementation of the Integrated Children's System.
Click to download Making
Use of Information in Children's Social Services from the Resources and
Practice database.
Implementing the Integrated Children's System: Training
Pack
This training pack has been designed to support councils and their
partner agencies introduce the Integrated Children's System, with a
particular focus on using the exemplars or practice materials.
Click to download the training
pack from the Resources and Practice database.
Write Enough
Write Enough is an interactive training pack commissioned to support
good practice in recording in children's services. In addition to a range
of exercises Write Enough contains key messages from research, inspection
reports, inquiry reports and best practice that are suitable for all
practitioners working in children's services who are required to keep
records.
Click to download the full training pack can be downloaded from the Write
Enough website.
Exemplars
This section provides copies of the records and the exemplars, available in PDF and Word format, which support the Integrated Children's System. A memorandum regarding the modification of the ICS exemplars is also available, detailing the common principles which should be adhered to should local authorities need to modify exemplars to suit local circumstances.
Involving Children
This section contains lists of resources which may help practitioners to include children and young people in the decision-making processes which affect their lives. The information here was collated in 2002 - we cannot therefore guarantee that all the publications listed here will still be available.
Section 1 - Children and young people in contact with children's services
This document contains resources to help looked after children and other young people in contact with children's services to participate in making decisions. It includes a selection of website addresses which allow children and young people to obtain information directly about health issues.
This document is accompanied by an example of a consultation document for care leavers to encourage their active involvement in the assessment process, which informs and develops their Pathway Plan.
Click to download Involving Children Section 1 - Children and young people in contact with children's services or to download the consultation document for care leavers in PDF and Word Format.
Section 2 - Involving disabled children
Produced for the Department of Health by the Council for Disabled Children and
Triangle (2002)
This document contains advice and information for practitioners, parents and carers about communicating effectively with disabled children. It also offers a selection of resources for practitioners to use for communicating with and involving disabled children.
This document is accompanied by a set of examples of approaches to consultation with disabled children and young people.
Click to download Involving Children Section 2 - Involving Disabled Children or to download a set of examples of approaches to consultation with disabled children and young people.
This page was last updated on 19 March 2008
