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final hearing


This is the last hearing in a court case, when the court makes the final decision or order about the application that has been made. But sometimes in care proceedings, courts make a final decision at [..]
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emotional abuse


There is no one definition of emotional abuse in the law and it can include many things like: continuing and severe ill treatment of a child so that the child’s confidence and self worth is badly hurt [..]
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voluntary accommodation


See Accommodation and section 20.
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twin track planning


See parallel planning.
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supporter


This may be a friend or someone in your community who you take with you to meetings with social workers (and other professionals) to help you remember what you want to say and to remind you of what wa [..]
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supervised contact


Sometimes a court or a social worker thinks it is best for a child if someone else is present when a child’s has contact with someone (perhaps a parent they don’t live with). This is to make sure the [..]
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special guardianship order


A Special Guardianship Order is a legal order which says that a child will live with someone who is not their parent on a long-term basis. In theory, the order can be ended before the child is 18 but [..]
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significant harm


The Children Act 1989 introduced the phrase "significant harm" to describe the amount of harm that a child must be suffering before Children’s Services become involved in family life against [..]
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short breaks


A child is looked after on a short break arrangement when: the child has a series of placements, no single placement lasts more than 17 days and the total time they are looked after in any 12 month pe [..]
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sgo


See: Special Guardianship Order.
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