ARP - Access to Resources Panel
C & F - Children & Families
CAFCASS - Children and Families Court Advisory Support Service
CAMHS - Children & Adolescent Mental Health Service
CCG - Clinical Commissioning Group
CFA - Children and Families Assessment
CIN - Children in Need
CIC - Children in Care
CIC Review or LAC Review
CICC - Children in Care Council
CLA - Children Looked After (a term infrequently used for CIC)
CP - Child Protection
CPC - Child Protection Conference
CPP - Children Protection Plan
CP - Chair – manages the CP conference
CPB - Corporate Parenting Board
CPR - child permanence record
CPS - Crown Prosecution Service
CS - Children’s Services
CSE - Child Sexual Exploitation
CWD - Children with Disabilities
DA - Domestic Abuse
DBS - Disclosure and Barring Service check
DfE - Department for Education
DH - Department of Health
DV - Domestic Violence
EWO - Education Welfare Officer
FGC - Family Group Conferencing
GAL - Guardian Ad Litem - See CAFCASS above
HV - Health Visitor
ICPC - Initial Child Protection Conference
IFA - Independent Fostering Agencies
IRO - Independent Reviewing Officer
LA - Local Authority
LAC - Looked after Children (often referred to as CIC)
LAC - Review or CIC
LADO - Local Authority Designated Officer
LSCB - Local Safeguarding Children Board
NFA - No Further Action
NRPF - No Recourse to Public Funds
PP - pathway plan
PEP - Personal Education Plan (ePEP is an electronic variant)
PLO - Public Law Outline
PPP - powers for police protection
PR - Parental Responsibility
PRU - Pupil Referral Unit
PSW - Principal Social Worker
QA - Quality Assurance
QAF - Quality Assurance Framework
QAST - Quality Assurance and Safeguarding Team (in WBC)
RCPC - Review Child Protection Conference
SAO - Secure Accommodation Order
SCR - Serious Case Review
SEN - Special Educational Needs
SGO - Special Guardianship
SoS - Signs of Safety
STRAT - Strategy discussion
SW - Social Worker
TAC - Team around the child
TAF - Team around the Family
UASC - Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children
VHT - Virtual Head Teacher
VS - Virtual School
YOS - Youth Offending Service
YOT - Youth Offending Teams
