Child protection and out of home care policies
Territory Families provides child protection and out of home care services, and support to vulnerable families and children, in the Northern Territory.
The child protection and out of home care policies listed below govern the delivery of these services and provide essential guidance for our staff.
Working in a statutory agency
These policies are about Territory Families’ authorised officer powers and delegations under the Care and Protection of Children Act and how we manage and respond to complaints.
- Delegations and authorised office powers DOCX (66.7 KB)
- Delegations and authorised office powers PDF (545.2 KB)
Child protection
These policies are about reporting and investigating cases of child abuse and neglect, undertaking assessments, working collaboratively with the courts and legal systems, income management.
- Applying for a banned drinker order DOCX (66.9 KB)
- Applying for a banned drinker order PDF (112.1 KB)
- Child protection measure of income management DOCX (76.5 KB)
- Child protection measure of income management PDF (120.7 KB)
- Applying for a warrant (s63) to gain access to child DOCX (63.5 KB)
- Applying for a warrant (s63) to gain access to child PDF (114.8 KB)
- Professional Reporters Guide PDF (1.5 MB)
- Keeping Children Safe - Information for Parents - Factsheet DOCX (85.4 KB)
- Provision of Information for Parents or Caregivers upon removal of a child DOCX (71.6 KB)
- Provision of Information for Parents or Caregivers upon removal of a child PDF (572.2 KB)
- Court Applications and Reports to the Family Matters and Youth Justice Courts DOCX (72.3 KB)
- Court Applications and Reports to the Family Matters and Youth Justice Courts PDF (142.0 KB)
Family support
These policies are about family and parent support services that build a family’s strengths and capacity
Children in care
These policies are about case management of children and young people in out of home care, permanent care orders, family contact, leaving care and after care support, travel, financial supports.
- Policy: Managing children absent or missing from placement DOCX (66.3 KB).
- Policy: Managing children absent or missing from placement PDF (556.3 KB)
- Care Planning for Children in Care PDF (586.5 KB)
- Care Planning for Children in Care DOCX (100.4 KB)
- Charter of rights DOCX (67.3 KB)
- Charter of rights PDF (144.0 KB)
- Child Care Services and Subsidies DOCX (66.6 KB)
- Child Care Services and Subsidies PDF (74.5 KB)
- Children in care during emergency events DOCX (72.7 KB)
- Children in care during emergency events PDF (116.8 KB)
- Reunification DOCX (95.1 KB)
- Reunification PDF (567.8 KB)
- Policy: Permanent care orders DOCX (66.3 KB)
- Policy: Permanent care orders PDF (561.8 KB)
- Permanent care order information for parents and carers DOCX (64.9 KB)
- Permanent care order information for parents and carers PDF (136.2 KB)
- Family contact arrangements DOCX (66.3 KB)
- Family contact arrangements PDF (45.4 KB)
- Health and medical needs of children in care DOCX (67.2 KB)
- Health and medical needs of children in care PDF (153.0 KB)
- Sexual and reproductive health DOCX (66.1 KB)
- Sexual and reproductive health PDF (122.6 KB)
- Educational planning DOCX (72.2 KB)
- Educational planning PDF (116.9 KB)
- Sibling groups DOCX (69.0 KB)
- Sibling groups PDF (169.2 KB)
- Travel for children DOCX (662.5 KB)
- Travel for children PDF (887.2 KB)
- Property of child DOCX (64.0 KB)
- Property of child PDF (117.9 KB)
- Financial support DOCX (75.3 KB)
- Financial support PDF (118.3 KB)
- Purchasing services DOCX (62.4 KB)
- Purchasing services PDF (108.2 KB)
- Behavioural management DOCX (66.5 KB)
- Behavioural management PDF (122.0 KB)
- Unauthorised removal of children DOCX (61.9 KB)
- Unauthorised removal of children PDF (108.0 KB)
- Death of a child in care DOCX (70.6 KB)
- Death of a child in care PDF (106.0 KB)
- Case Management Policy DOCX (72.2 KB)
- Case Management Policy PDF (141.7 KB)
- Respite Care Policy DOCX (72.3 KB)
- Respite Care Policy PDF (581.0 KB)
- National disability insurance scheme participation policy DOCX (69.4 KB)
- National disability insurance scheme participation policy PDF (658.5 KB)
- Health and medical needs of children policy DOCX (65.0 KB)
- Health and medical needs of children policy PDF (543.9 KB)
- Responding to Safety and Wellbeing Concerns for Children in Care - Policy DOCX (57.3 KB)
- Responding to Safety and Wellbeing Concerns for Children in Care - Policy PDF (563.7 KB)
- Carer's Authority to Provide Consents - Policy DOCX (64.7 KB)
- Carer's Authority to Provide Consents - Policy PDF (540.5 KB)
- Protocol for Police contact with children living in Therapeutic Residential Care PDF (1.4 MB)
- Transition to Independence Policy DOCX (68.1 KB)
- Transition to Independence Policy PDF (547.1 KB)
- After Care Support Policy DOCX (66.7 KB)
- After Care Support Policy PDF (538.6 KB)
Places of care
These policies are about carer assessment, approval of kinship and foster carers, and placements under the Aboriginal child placement principle.
- Emergency and authorised carer assessment and approval DOCX (63.3 KB)
- Emergency and authorised carer assessment and approval PDF (693.2 KB)
- Provision of care by departmental staff DOCX (62.0 KB)
- Provision of care by departmental staff PDF (534.2 KB)
Practice information
These are supplementary policies including case transfers, reportable incidents, managing client information, victims of crime, and worker safety.
Last updated: 20 June 2020
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