If you notice anything on a one minute guide that you think is incorrect or out of date, email csimprovement@leeds.gov.uk to let us know.
We have developed a library of ‘one minute guides’ that aim to provide straight-forward information about the different work we do and who is involved. The guides are for everyone to use and we’re regularly adding to them with new topics and information.
- Best practice
 - Early help and targeted services
 - Education
 - Equality and diversity
 - Leeds ways of working
 - Looked after children and care leavers
 - Multi agency working
 - National legislation, guidance and inspection
 - Safeguarding and social work
 - SEND
 
Best practice
- Appreciative inquiry
 - Multi-agency concerns resolution process
 - Outcomes focused practice
 - Publicly available data
 - Safer recruitment
 - Supervision
 - Think family, work family
 - Voice and influence
 - Voice and influence opportunities
 - Workforce development
 
Early help and targeted services
- Arts, music and culture for children
 - Baby Steps
 - Bail and remand protocol
 - Cluster working
 - Early help
 - Early start
 - Family group conference (FGC) service
 - Family Hubs and the Early Help front door team
 - Gambling and young people
 - Kinship care
 - Lifelong links
 - Multi-systemic therapy
 - PACT programme
 - Relationship matters - reducing parental conflict
 - Start in Leeds
 - Strengthening Young Futures Panel
 - Support Care
 - Youth Justice Service
 - Leeds Children’s Out of Court Disposal Panel
 
Education
- Bullying
 - Children missing education
 - Children missing out on education
 - Education attendance – statutory responsibilities
 - Education safeguarding team
 - Educational psychology
 - Elective home education
 - Flexi-schooling
 - Personal Education Plans and the Pupil Premium Plus
 - September Guarantee
 - School admissions
 - School exclusions
 - Supporting pupils at school with medical conditions
 - The Virtual School in Leeds
 
Equality and diversity
- GRT Outreach and Inclusion Team
 - Cultural cohesion quality mark
 - Equality impact assessment
 - Working with lesbian and gay young people
 - Working with bi young people
 - Working with trans young people
 - Young carers
 
Leeds ways of working
- Child Friendly Leeds
 - Children’s transport team
 - Executive Member for Children's Services
 - Leeds practice model
 - Rethink formulation
 - Restorative conflict resolution and restorative conferences
 - Restorative practice
 
Looked after children and care leavers
- Contact or family time
 - Foster carer reviews
 - Fostering service
 - Independent reviewing officer (IRO)
 - Independent visitors
 - Leeds parent and child assessment fostering scheme
 - Mockingbird family model
 - Reunification
 - Reducing Offending for Children Looked After (ROCLA)
 - Section 20 Children Act 1989
 
Multi agency working
- Designated and named professionals in health
 - Forward Leeds
 - Health economy in Leeds
 - Leeds Safeguarding Children Partnership (LSCP)
 - MindMate
 - Police powers of protection
 - Probation Service
 - SUDIC - Sudden Unexpected Death in Childhood
 
National legislation, guidance and inspection
- Area SEND inspections - 2023 onwards
 - Area SEND thematic visits
 - Children and Families Act
 - Care Act
 - Domestic homicide reviews
 - Growing up neglected - Joint Targeted Area Inspection report on neglect
 - Joint Targeted Area Inspections - Children who are victims of domestic abuse
 - Ofsted inspection framework
 - Prevent, Protect and Repair - report on domestic abuse JTAI inspections
 - Serious child safeguarding incidents and reviews
 - Serious Crime Act - protection of children
 - Time to Listen - Joint Targeted Area Inspection report on CSE
 - Working together to safeguard children
 
Safeguarding and social work
- Child and family assessment
 - Child criminal exploitation
 - Child protection conference
 - Child protection conference chair
 - Child sex offenders disclosure scheme
 - Child sexual abuse in the family environment
 - Child sexual exploitation
 - Child trafficking
 - Children in employment and entertainment
 - Children’s Emergency Duty Team
 - Coercive control offence
 - Domestic violence and abuse
 - Domestic violence disclosure scheme
 - Domestic violence and abuse - school notifications
 - Domestic violence in young people’s relationships
 - Duty and advice team
 - Family drug and alcohol court
 - Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
 - Front door safeguarding hub
 - Futures/Hold my Hand Specialist Post-Removal and Pre-Birth service
 - Honour based abuse
 - Leeds domestic violence service
 - Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO)
 - MACE framework
 - Modern slavery and the national referral mechanism
 - Neglect
 - Perplexing presentation and fabricated or induced illness
 - Police welfare checks
 - Preparation for Initial Child Protection Conferences
 - Private fostering
 - Harmful sexual behaviour
 - Professional curiosity
 - Public law outline
 - Radicalisation and preventing extremism
 - Return Interview Service
 - Safe Project
 - Safeguarding deaf children
 - Therapeutic Social Work Team
 
SEND
- Child health and disability service
 - Deaf and Hearing Impairment Team (DAHIT)
 - Education Health and Care Plans (EHCPs)
 - Everyone's included Leeds SEND and Inclusion strategy
 - Fostering for children with disabilities
 - Leeds Local Offer
 - Personal budgets
 - Portage
 - SENDIASS - Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information Advice Support Service
 - SENIT - Special Educational Needs and Inclusion Team
 - SENSAP - Special Educational Needs Statutory Assessment and Provision team
 - Short breaks and fun activities
 - Short Breaks Fostering for children with disabilities
 
If you notice anything on a one minute guide that you think is incorrect or out of date, email csimprovement@leeds.gov.uk to let us know.
