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Topic 2 The Children's Hearings Process - The
Outcome
Teachers' Sheet
Fascinating Facts Sheet 7 The
Outcome
Activity 7 Review
Teachers' Sheet
TOPIC 2 - THE CHILDREN'S HEARINGS PROCESS: STEP
4 - THE OUTCOME
Activity:
Fascinating Facts 7 - The Outcome
Activity 7 - Review
Aims:
To enable pupils to become familiar with
decisions that a Children's Hearing can make.
To increase pupils' understanding of what a Supervision
Requirement is.
To review their understanding of the Children's Hearings
process.
Materials:
A copy of Fascinating Facts sheet 7 and
Activity 7 for each pupil.
Method:
Recap on the process so far. Tell the
pupils that to reach a decision the panel members will have
read a lot of reports and listened carefully to what
everyone, especially the child, has said at the
Hearing.
Hand out Fascinating Facts sheet 7 and talk through the
decisions. Explain the Supervision Requirement and what
this means (see Teachers' Guide pages 8 & 9 for
details).
Stress that most children on Supervision Requirements
stay at home with their family. It is only in exceptional
circumstances that they might have to live somewhere else,
for example if their mum and/or dad can't look after them.
This might be because they have problems of their own or
because the child/young person is outwith their control.
When children are away from home they are looked after by
another family or by trained carers.
Activity 7 can be used as a homework activity to review
the pupils' learning about the Children's Hearings
process.
Fascinating Facts 7 Step 4 - The Outcome
The Hearing has several decisions to choose from. The
main ones are:
- to discharge the referral because the panel members
feel that compulsory supervision is not needed
- to put in place a Supervision Requirement on the
child or young person
- to hold the Hearing at a later date to get more
information to help the panel members to make a
decision (this is called continuing the Hearing)
- if the child or young person or their family does
not agree with the reasons for the Children's Hearing,
or if the child is too young to understand the reasons
for the Hearing, the panel members will ask the Sheriff
Court to decide whether the reasons are correct.
Usually the outcome of a Hearing is a
Supervision Requirement. This means that
the child or young person will have to co-operate with
people whose job it is to help them and their family with
their problems.
A Supervision Requirement is a special plan to help the
child or young person and their family. What is in the plan
depends on the reasons why they were at the Children's
Hearing. For example, if the child has been offending, he
or she might have to do some work with a social worker to
look at why they have been doing this.
The Supervision Requirement might have some special
rules in it about where the child or young person must live
or who they can see. Most children on Supervision
Requirements stay at home.
The Supervision Requirement will last as long as it is
needed but it must be reviewed again by another Children's
Hearing within a year.
WORD CHECK
co-operate = to work together
outcome = what happens as a result of the
Hearing
Supervision Requirement = a plan of work and
support to help the child or young person
discharge = to remove the referral
compulsory = something that you have to do
rather than something you choose to do
offending = breaking the law
review = look at all the information
again
Activity 7 - Review
Write in your own words what happens at each step of the
Children's Hearings system
1. THE REFERRAL | 2. THE INVESTIGATION | 3. THE HEARING 4. | THE OUTCOME |
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