The Department for Child Protection is currently undertaking a review of each of its policy documents. The review process is ongoing and will result in further policy documents being updated and/or retired. While the department will update this list on a regular basis, please note that as a result of these ongoing review processes, this list may be out of date from time to time.
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- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Procurement Policy (PDF, 258.5 KB)
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle Paper (PDF, 600.3 KB)
- Accounts Payable Policy (PDF, 290.6 KB)
- Adoption of an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Person: Procedure for Consulting with a Recognised Organisation (PDF, 272.5 KB)
- Adoption from Care Policy (PDF, 711.0 KB)
- Adoption from Care Procedure (PDF, 935.2 KB)
- Adoption Services – Processing local and intercountry adoptions Procedure (PDF, 432.3 KB)
- Advance Account Procedure (PDF, 370.5 KB)
- Adverse Events Procedure (PDF, 326.3 KB)
- Alcohol and other drugs (AoD) in child protection Practice Paper (PDF, 8.2 MB)
- Alcohol and other drugs in the workplace Procedure (PDF, 266.8 KB)
- Assessment framework for DCP staff (PDF, 4.6 MB)
- Attachment Practice Paper (PDF, 345.5 KB)
B
C
- Care Concerns: Assess and Assign a Care Concern Referral Procedure (PDF, 2.4 MB)
- Care Concerns: CCMU Reporting to External Agencies Procedure (PDF, 307.5 KB)
- Care Concerns: Convene a Serious Care Concern Planning Discussion Procedure (PDF, 260.6 KB)
- Care Concerns: Manage Outcomes of a Serious Care concern Investigation Procedure (PDF, 287.1 KB)
- Care Concerns: Refer a completed Serious Care Concern investigation to the Care Concern Outcome Panel Procedure (PDF, 268.6 KB)
- Care Concerns: Undertake Care Concern background checks Procedure (PDF, 284.8 KB)
- Carer approvals, agreements and cancellation for family based carer Procedure (PDF, 438.4 KB)
- Carer assessment Procedure Kinship and Specific Child Only (PDF, 334.4 KB)
- Carer Payments (Family Based) Procedure (PDF, 414.4 KB)
- Carer platform content management procedure (PDF, 705.0 KB)
- Carer Reviews for Family Based Carers Procedure (PDF, 401.8 KB)
- Carer Support Payments Carer Handbook (PDF, 402.2 KB)
- Case Recording Practice Paper (PDF, 352.9 KB)
- Case Transfer Procedure (PDF, 220.7 KB)
- Change theory - Practice Paper (PDF, 334.6 KB)
- Chief Executive power to require a report from a State authority Procedure (PDF, 292.1 KB)
- Child and adolescent development - Practice Paper (PDF, 305.2 KB)
- Child Care Subsidy Procedure (PDF, 837.5 KB)
- Child incidental payments – Who pays for what? Residential care service provision by service providers (PDF, 741.2 KB)
- Commissioning Framework (PDF, 1.3 MB)
- Complaints and Feedback Management Policy (PDF, 339.8 KB)
- Complaints and Feedback Management Procedure (PDF, 512.0 KB)
- Conducting interviews with children and young people to assess their safety Practice Paper (PDF, 1.5 MB)
- Consult or Decision Record Procedure (PDF, 250.3 KB)
- Contact Arrangements Review Panel Procedure (PDF, 374.7 KB)
- Contract Management Framework (PDF, 520.7 KB)
- Contract Management Manual (PDF, 3.3 MB)
- Contract Performance Management Framework (PDF, 259.0 KB)
- Contractual web content management Framework (PDF, 262.6 KB)
- Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 flowchart (PDF, 1.3 MB)
- Culturally and linguistically diverse child placement Policy (PDF, 261.1 KB)
D
- DCP Kinship Care Program: Provision of induction resources to new kinship carers Procedure (PDF, 294.1 KB)
- DCP Kinship Care Program: Targeted Support Approach Assessment Procedure (PDF, 533.2 KB)
- DCP Practice Approach Summary Guide (PDF, 4.7 MB)
- DCP Practice Principles: The six pillars of our practice (PDF, 12.0 MB)
- DCP Psychological Services Clinical Guidelines for undertaking psychological assessments (PDF, 15.0 MB)
- DCP Psychological Services - Clinical Guidelines For Undertaking Psychological Assessments With Aboriginal Families (PDF, 13.2 MB)
- Death of a child or young person in care Procedure (PDF, 330.4 KB)
- Decision making Practice Paper (PDF, 344.9 KB)
- Department for Child Protection Child Protection Practice Leadership Framework (PDF, 1.6 MB)
- Disposal of client files and sub files procedure (PDF, 343.1 KB)
- Domestic and family violence Practice Paper (PDF, 483.2 KB)
E
- Enacting palliative and/or end of life decisions for a child or young person under Guardianship of the Chief Executive (PDF, 340.9 KB)
- Exceptional resource funding procedure (PDF, 294.7 KB)
F
- Family based carer consultation procedure (PDF, 341.9 KB)
- Family based carers: Missing or absent from placement fact sheet (PDF, 209.7 KB)
- Family contact for children and young people Practice Paper (PDF, 20.1 MB)
- Family Law Matters Procedure (PDF, 279.1 KB)
- Family Led Decision Making for Aboriginal families Framework (PDF, 881.2 KB)
- Family Safety Framework and Family Safety Meetings Practice Procedure (PDF, 291.6 KB)
- Finding Families Procedure (PDF, 2.4 MB)
- Five conditions assessment tool (PDF, 1.2 MB)
- Formalising and registering partnerships Procedure (PDF, 291.3 KB)
- Freedom of Information (FOI) procedure (PDF, 753.2 KB)
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I
- Iceberg Model Practice Approach: Trauma lens for children and young people (PDF, 1.7 MB)
- Income management Procedure (PDF, 3.9 MB)
- Interagency Code of Practice (PDF, 972.7 KB)
- Interagency Code of Practice Strategy Discussion Flowchart (PDF, 187.8 KB)
- Intercountry adoption policy (PDF, 319.5 KB)
- Internal Review Procedure (PDF, 331.5 KB)
- Interpreting and translating procedure for people from a culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) background (PDF, 1.8 MB)
- Interstate Child Protection Liaison Framework (PDF, 2.0 MB)
L
- Licensing quality and compliance Framework (PDF, 397.1 KB)
- Licensing Services: Evidence Resource (PDF, 763.9 KB)
- Licensing Services: Fit-Proper Assessment Procedure (PDF, 2.0 MB)
- Licensing Services: Licence Audit Procedure (PDF, 1.3 MB)
- Life story work and life story books Practice Paper (PDF, 324.2 KB)
- Local adoption policy (PDF, 301.9 KB)
- Long-Term Guardianship (Specified Person) Policy (PDF, 306.7 KB)
M
- Managing risk in procurement Procedure (PDF, 282.9 KB)
- Manual of Practice: Case Planning Review and Annual Review Chapter (PDF, 847.0 KB)
- Manual of Practice: DCP Call Centre Chapter (PDF, 4.8 MB)
- Manual of Practice: DCP Residential Care (PDF, 22.0 MB)
- Manual of Practice: Information gathering and sharing chapter (PDF, 616.6 KB)
- Manual of Practice: Intake, investigation and assessment chapter (PDF, 25.1 MB)
- Manual of Practice: Long-term Guardianship (Specified Person) chapter (PDF, 499.3 KB)
- Manual of Practice: Ongoing Intervention Chapter (PDF, 11.0 MB)
- Assessment, case conceptualisation and case direction flowchart (PDF, 187.4 KB)
- Family Group Conference flowchart (PDF, 276.7 KB)
- Family preservation flowchart (PDF, 187.2 KB)
- Voluntary custody agreement flowchart (PDF, 116.6 KB)
- Family reunification flowchart (PDF, 777.0 KB)
- Make an application for care and protection orders flowchart (PDF, 223.2 KB)
- Manual of Practice: Place a child or young person in care Chapter (PDF, 900.8 KB)
- Manual of Practice: Raising and Responding to Care Concerns Chapter (PDF, 10.7 MB)
- Manual of Practice: Supporting children and young people in care chapter (PDF, 2.7 MB)
- Remove the child or young person from a placement flowchart (PDF, 247.1 KB)
- Support the child or young person to develop and maintain family and community connections through contact arrangements flowchart (PDF, 197.0 KB)
- Support the child or young person to change their name flowchart (PDF, 231.0 KB)
- Support the safety of the child or young person by issuing a written direction flowchart (PDF, 195.4 KB)
- Victims of Crime compensation process flowchart (PDF, 220.3 KB)
- Manual of Practice: Transition to adulthood Chapter (PDF, 1018.8 KB)
- Minimum qualification and training requirements for service provider personnel (PDF, 801.8 KB)
- Missing or absent from placement Service Provider Requirements (PDF, 312.6 KB)
N
- Next Steps Pilot Service and Stability Post Care Individual Packages Procedure (PDF, 355.8 KB)
- Notifiable Data Breach Procedure (PDF, 6.8 MB)
- Notification of the death of a party to an adoption Procedure (PDF, 302.8 KB)
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P
- Performance Measurement Specification (PDF, 366.4 KB)
- Permanency Planning Practice Paper (PDF, 321.7 KB)
- Placement and Support Packages Procedure (PDF, 428.6 KB)
- Placement Procedure (PDF, 332.8 KB)
- Policy Governance Framework (PDF, 508.8 KB)
- Practice and Cultural Consultation Practice Paper (PDF, 322.4 KB)
- Procurement and contracting engagement Procedure (PDF, 282.9 KB)
- Procurement Governance Framework (PDF, 281.9 KB)
- Procurement Governance Policy (PDF, 298.6 KB)
- Procurement Manual (PDF, 3.1 MB)
- Protective behaviours and sexual education Practice Paper (PDF, 351.8 KB)
- Provision of adoption information and the exercise of the Chief Executive’s discretion under section 27(5) of the Adoption Act 1988 (PDF, 374.0 KB)
- Provision of Direct Personal Response (National Redress Scheme) Procedure (PDF, 730.7 KB)
- Psychological assessment application approval flowchart – contract and licensed residential care provider (PDF, 107.5 KB)
- Psychological assessment flowchart – providing outcomes to DCP (PDF, 104.6 KB)
- Psychological assessment flowchart - pre-employment checks (PDF, 153.2 KB)
- Psychological assessment application approval flowchart – service provider (PDF, 108.2 KB)
- Psychological suitability assessments Procedure (PDF, 243.3 KB)
- Public interest disclosure Procedure (PDF, 352.9 KB)
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R
- Relationship Based Practice Practice Paper (PDF, 348.6 KB)
- Reporting a suspicion a child or young person is at risk procedure (PDF, 464.7 KB)
- Research and Evaluation Framework (PDF, 293.4 KB)
- Residential care E-Log (electronic log) Procedure (PDF, 415.6 KB)
- Residential Care: Incident Management Procedure (PDF, 282.6 KB)
- Residential Care: Medical treatment and medication Procedure (PDF, 459.6 KB)
- Residential Care: Missing or absent from placement Procedure (PDF, 379.2 KB)
- Residential Care - Observation logbook - recording and records management Procedure (PDF, 323.7 KB)
- Residential Care: Passive night shift Procedure (PDF, 257.7 KB)
- Residential Care: Safe use of rescue knives Procedure (PDF, 281.1 KB)
- Residential Care: Supporting children and young people who are at risk of self-harm and suicide Procedure (PDF, 378.8 KB)
- Respite Policy (PDF, 266.7 KB)
- Responding to disclosures of harm Practice Paper (PDF, 388.1 KB)
- Responding to Requests for Information (National Redress Scheme) Procedure (PDF, 282.2 KB)
- Reunification for children and young people Practice Paper (PDF, 341.1 KB)
S
- SA Ambulance Cover Procedure (PDF, 828.5 KB)
- Safe Infant Sleeping Policy (PDF, 253.5 KB)
- Safeguarding Practice Paper (PDF, 351.1 KB)
- Safety Practice Paper (PDF, 268.5 KB)
- SDM Care Concern Screening Criteria (PDF, 505.7 KB)
- SDM Family Reunification Assessment Policy and Procedures Manual (PDF, 366.9 KB)
- SDM Initial Risk Assessment for Abuse and Neglect Policy and Procedures Manual (PDF, 332.4 KB)
- SDM Risk Reassessment Policy and Procedures Manual (PDF, 300.8 KB)
- SDM Safety Assessment Policy and Procedures Manual (PDF, 374.8 KB)
- SDM Screening and Response Priority Assessment Policy and Procedures Manual (PDF, 684.9 KB)
- Service Provider Responsibilities in the Management of Care Concerns (PDF, 352.5 KB)
- Significant Incident Management - Requirements for Service Providers (PDF, 293.7 KB)
- SILS DCP Property Governance Guide (PDF, 792.1 KB)
- Stability in Family-Based Care and Over 18 Education Initiative Procedure (PDF, 278.9 KB)
- Strengths Based Practice Practice Paper (PDF, 301.8 KB)
- Subpoena Information Release Team Procedure (PDF, 343.7 KB)
- Supplier complaints in procurement Procedure (PDF, 303.1 KB)
- Supported Independent Living Services (SILS) Procedure (PDF, 435.1 KB)
- Supporting and collaborating with carers Practice Paper (PDF, 346.4 KB)
- Supporting children and young people who identify as LGBTIQA+ Practice Paper (PDF, 382.0 KB)
- Supporting children and young people in care with high risk and complex behaviours Practice Paper (PDF, 360.0 KB)
- Supporting children and young people who display harmful sexual behaviours Practice Paper (PDF, 406.3 KB)
- Supporting the participation of children and young people in decision making Practice Paper (PDF, 449.2 KB)
- Systems theory - Practice Paper (PDF, 360.1 KB)
T
- Taikurtirna Warri-apinthi Procedure (PDF, 349.2 KB)
- Transfer of care and protection orders and proceedings Procedure (PDF, 2.6 MB)
- Transporting children and young people Service Provider Requirements (PDF, 229.5 KB)
- Trauma - Practice Paper (PDF, 480.3 KB)
- Trauma lens – Practice Paper (PDF, 366.5 KB)
U
- Understanding mental health difficulties in a child protection context – Practice paper (PDF, 315.4 KB)
- Understanding Restrictive Practices Practice Paper (PDF, 423.9 KB)
- Urgent arrangements with non-panel service provider Procedure (PDF, 342.2 KB)
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W
- Who can say OK?
- Working with caregivers with disability Practice Paper (PDF, 293.1 KB)
- Working with children and young people with disability Practice Paper (PDF, 353.6 KB)
- Working with Children Checks for family-based carers (PDF, 393.1 KB)
- Working with Children Checks Procedure (PDF, 269.4 KB)
- Working with concerns about neglect, hoarding and squalor Practice Paper (PDF, 415.1 KB)
- Working with cultural diversity Practice Paper (PDF, 329.7 KB)
- Working with infants Practice Paper (PDF, 359.2 KB)
Page last updated: 22/12/2025