DoH Looked After Children Officer

Key areas of responsibility

Professional responsibility for and providing input to policy development with regard to:

• Looked After Children, including residential care, family placements and foster care
• Domestic and Intercountry Adoption
• care planning and review
• leaving and aftercare
• representation of children and children's rights
• schemes for the delegation of statutory functions
• Secure Accommodation

Screening assessment of need for and securing access to secure accommodation, in particular for children under 13 years.

Providing professional input, as required, into the evaluation of:

• case management reviews
• serious adverse incidents
• business cases

Providing input in relation to policy development and professional issues with regard to:

• ethnic minority issues
• family support services
• Northern Ireland Guardian Ad Litem Service
• race relations
• asylum seekers

Professional advice in relation to Looked After Childre, ethnic minority and related issues. to Policy Branches, other Government Departments, Agencies, statutory, voluntary and private sector organisations, where appropriate; and

Representing the OSS in a number of DoH and external groupings related to the above areas of work.

• Contact Looked After Children Officer