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<p>The dedicated social workers located in HM Young Offender Institutions support
staff to meet their safeguarding and looked-after child responsibilities, and facilitate
good working relationships between establishments and local authorities. Additionally,
the recently revised ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’ guidance includes direction
for local authorities when a child becomes looked-after as a result of being remanded
to youth detention accommodation.</p><p>The Youth Custody Service (YCS) is developing
further guidance on how professionals in establishments and the community should work
together to facilitate a looked-after child’s contact with their social worker and
how to resolve issues where these arise. This will be available to staff by May 2024.
The YCS will also be creating opportunities for staff to come together and share good
practice in this area.</p><p>The YCS has recently improved processes to collate and
analyse data, both on community professionals visiting children in custody, and on
the social care status of children and young people in its care. The higher-quality
data will help inform future work to improve care for looked-after children.</p><p>Work
is in progress to improve data quality in the Youth Justice Application Framework
and Asset Plus framework, including the looked-after child field.</p>
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