🚫| 5. Children's Hearing

Question 1

Roles of Children’s Hearing System

Answer 1

• Compulsory Supervision Order
• Child Placement
• Listen to Views

Question 2

Role of Children’s Hearing System:

Compulsory Supervision Order

Answer 2

• One duty of the Children’s Hearing System is issuing compulsory supervision orders.
• Panels may issue a CSO where a social worker must montior and report on a child to ensure improvement - this is a legal requirement for the child to comply with.
• For example, in 2019-20 8875 children were given CSO’s.

Question 3

Role of Children’s Hearing System:

Child Placement

Answer 3

• One duty of the Children’s Hearing System is placing children.
• Panels in the system have the ability to place young people in a unit that they cannot voluntarily leave - this is often a last resort.

Question 4

Role of Children’s Hearing System:

Listen to Views

Answer 4

• One duty of the Children’s Hearing System is to listen to the views of the child.
• Children who go through a hearing must have their viewpoint heard by the panel in order to come to a decision within the child’s best interest.
• For example, 30,363 hearing were held in 2019-20 - this practice would have been followed in each of these.