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Intercollegiate Role Framework, March 2015 recommend that all Healthcare staff who come into contact with looked-after children should work within the Royal Colleges’ intercollegiate framework.  Therefore all staff employed by East London Foundation Trust (ELFT) who are working with this group of children and their carers must have the right knowledge, skills, attitudes and values, particularly as access to highly skilled and knowledgeable Health practitioner’s results in improved outcomes, enabling young people to achieve their full potential.\nELFT Specialist Children’s NHS staff will be aware of and work within the East London Foundation Trust Child Protection Procedures\nELFT Specialist Children’s NHS staff will know how to access support and supervision from the Named Nurse for Children in Care, Named Professional Safeguarding Children and Designated Nurse for Children in Care\nPatients Covered\nChildren in Care and Young People placed by external CCG area in Newham\nChildren in Care and Young People placed by Newham Local Authority\nMonitoring Tool\nStandards:\nIntroduction\n1.1 This procedure has been developed to promote the health and wellbeing of Children in Care (CIC) who are in the care of Newham Local Authority.  This procedure is in place to direct clinicians who have responsibility for undertaking statutory Initial and Review Health Assessment for Children in Care.\n1.2 The statutory Health Assessment process is a complex process.  The process needs to be jointly owned between Health and Newham Local Authority and relies heavily upon partnership working, cooperation and effective communication between everyone.  Any potential change to processes or systems that may have implications to practice will require prior consultation and agreement between agencies.\n1.3 The Provider, East London NHS Foundation Trust, has a role and duty of care to ensure that all children and young people in care have the opportunity to have their health needs assessed by an appropriately qualified clinician.  This should be within recommended timescales, ensuring appropriate and timely actions are taken to meet the identified health needs (Promoting the Health and Wellbeing of Looked after Children DOH 2015).\n1.4 The Children Act 1989 and amended legislation 2004 place clear responsibilities for Health providers to comply with requests from Local Authority (LA) to help them to provide support services to looked after children.  Therefore, the starting point for effective partnership working has to be at the Initial stages when children enter the care system and one that follows the child’s health journey through the care system and beyond.  There is an explicit requirement for effective and robust systems and processes to be in place if we are to improve the health outcomes for looked after children.  The planning, processes and systems need to be firmly embedded within Health and across Newham organisations (DOH 2015 & NICE 2010, 2013 & 2020).\n1.5 The health of Looked after Children (CIC) is substantially worse than the health of their peers living with their birth families. This reflects the impacts of poverty, poor parenting, physical / sexual abuse and neglect, and trauma for the unaccompanied asylum seeking minors. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) is the term used to describe traumatic experiences before age 18 that can lead to negative, lifelong emotional and physical outcomes.\nCommon problems include the eff","cbCaipICZSJMk23O","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipICZSJMk23O","docx",923512,37,"English","# Version Control Summary\n# Purpose of this document\n# Scope of this SOP\n# Competencies required\n# Patients Covered\n# Monitoring Tool\n# Standards\n## Introduction","[{\"question\":\"Who is covered by this SOP for Children in Care health assessments?\",\"answer\":\"The SOP applies to all staff of East London Health Care Foundation Trust (ELFT) undertaking statutory health assessments for children in care, including temporary and bank staff, and it covers CIC and young people placed by external CCG area in Newham and by Newham Local Authority.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the SOP?\",\"answer\":\"The SOP is designed to support and guide clinicians and staff to improve the health and wellbeing of Children in Care by directing how statutory Initial and Review Health Assessments should be undertaken.\"},{\"question\":\"Why are partnership and timely processes emphasized in the statutory assessment system?\",\"answer\":\"The statutory health assessment process is complex and depends on partnership working between health providers and Newham Local Authority. 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