Bucks CC - List of Acronyms Commonly Used in Children's Social Care

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Below you will find a helpful list of commonly used acronyms with their definitions.

| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |

A
ABC	Acceptable Behaviour Contract (Youth Justice Board)
ACPC	Area Child Protection Committee
ADHD	Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
AEO	Assistant Education Officer
ALN	Additional Learning Needs
APR	Assessment & Progress Record
ASBO	Anti Social Behaviour Order
ASD	Autistic Spectrum Disorders
ATP	Achieving Top Performance
AWPU	Age Weighted Pupil Unit (Pupil led funding to schools - varying according to pupil’s age)

B
BAAF	British Agencies for Adoption & Fostering
BCC	Buckinghamshire County Council
BECTa	British Educational Technology & Communications agency
BHS	Buckinghamshire Healthy Schools
BME	Black & Minority Ethnic
BSP	Behaviour Support Plan
BST	Behaviour Support Team
BV	Best Value
BVPI	Best Value Performance Indicator
BYPU	Bucks Young People’s University

C
CA	City Academy
CA 1989	Children Act 1989
CAFCASS	Children & Families Court Advisory and Support Service
CAMHS	Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
CAPS	Capital and Property Strategy Group
CATS	Cognitive Ability Tests
CDA	Crime & Disorder Act 1998
CDAT	Community Drugs Action Team
CDRP	Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships
CEN	Community Empowerment Networks
CF	Children’s Fund
CFSCI	Children’s Fund Street Crime Initiative
CIAG	Community Incident Action Groups
CiN	Children in Need
CIR	Core Information Requirements
CLA	Children Looked After
CO	Care Order
COMT	Chief Officers’ Management Team
CP	Child Protection
CPC	Child Protection Conference
CPD	Continuing Professional Development
CIN	Children in Need
CIS	Children’s Information Service
CoP	Code of Practice e.g. Special Educational Needs, Admissions, Appeals, Disability
CPD	Continuous Professional Development
CPSCU	Child Protection and Sexual Crimes Unit
CRB	Criminal records Bureau
CRF	Common Referral Form
CSF/I	Children supported in their families or independently
CSP	Children’s Services Plan
CSSR	Council with Social Services Responsibilities
CT	Children’s Trust
CTC	City technology Colleges
CWD	Children With Disabilities
CYPSP	Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership

D
DAP	Declaration of Acceptance & Participation (information sharing protocol)
DAT	Drugs Action Team
DC	District Council
DDA	Disability Discrimination Act
DfES	Department for Education and Skills
DoH	Department of Health
DPA	Data Protection Act
DT	Designated Teacher (each school has a DT for Child Protection and a DT for Children in Public Care)
DV	Domestic Violence

E
EAL	English as an Additional Language
EBD	Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
EBP	Education Business Partnership
ECPC	Education of Children in Public Care
EDP	Education Development Plan
EIR	Essential Information Record
EP	Educational Psychologist
EPO	Emergency Protection Order
EMIE	Education Management Information Exchange
EMS	Education Management System (central data system)
EPS	Educational Psychology Service
ESF	European Social Fund
EWO	Education Welfare Officer
EWS	Education Welfare Service
EYDCP	Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership

F
FAP	Formal Assessment Panel (Special Educational Needs)
FAS	Funding Agency for Schools
FE	Further Education
FFI	Factitious Induced Illness
FSM	Free School meals
FSS	Formula Spending Share (Funding to Councils from Govt)

G
GCE	General Certificate of Education
GCSE	General Certificate of Secondary Education
GNVQ	General National Vocational Qualification
GOSE	Government Office of the South East

I
ICO	Interim Care Order
ICPC	Initial Child Protection Conference
ICRS	Integrated Care Records System
ICS	Integrated Children’s System
ICT	Information and Communications Technology
IEP	Individual Education Plan (Special Educational Needs)
IFA	Independent Fostering Agency
INSET	In-Service Education and Training
IPS	Independent Parent Supporter (For parents of children with SEN)
IRT	Identification, Referral and Tracking (of children at risk)
ISA	Information Sharing and Assessment (formerly IRT, above)
ISA	Information Sharing Arrangement
ISSP	Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme (for young offenders as alternative to custody)

J
JACLAC	Joint Agency Committee for Looked After Children
JDQ	Job Description Questionnaire
JOAPP	Joint Agency Placement Panel

L
LA	Local Authority
LAC	Looked After Children
LAG	Leaders Advisory Group
LEA	Local Education Authority
LGA	Local Government Association
LMS	Local Management of Schools – (now Fair Funding)
LPP	Local Performance Plan
LSA	Learning Support Assistant
LSC	Learning and Skills Council

M
MAP	Management Action Plan
MAPPA	Multi-agency Public Protection Agencies
MAPPP	Multi-agency Public Protection Panels
MARRS	Multi Agency Rapid Response Service – now the Outreach Service
METAS	Minority Ethnic and Traveller Achievement Service
MLD	Moderate Learning Difficulties
MSbP	Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
MSI	Multi-Sensory Impairment
MTP	Medium Term Planning

N
NASEN	National Association for Special Educational Needs
NCSC	National Care Standards Commission
NFCA	National Foster Care Association
NCY	National Curriculum Year
NFER	National Foundation for Educational Research
NHSS	National Healthy Schools Standard
NPD	National Pupil Database
NPT	National Pyramid Trust (therapeutic project for 7-9 year-olds)
NPPN	National Parent Partnership Network
NVO	National Voluntary Organisation
NVQ	National Vocational Qualifications

O
OAP	Out of Authority Placement
OFSTED	Office for Standards in Education
OIC	Office of the Information Commissioner (data protection)
OT	Occupational Therapy/Therapists

P
PA	Personal Advisor (Connexions)
PAF	Performance Assessment Framework
PAG	Portfolio Advisory Group
PANDA	Performance and Assessment Data from OFSTED
PAT	Phonological Awareness Training
PAYP	Positive Activities for Young People
PCG	Parents Consultative Group
PCT	Primary Care Trust (Group of GPs)
PD	Physical Disability
PDO	Potentially Dangerous Offender
PEP	Principal Educational Psychologist
PEP	Personal Education Plan (statutory for children in public care)
PFI	Private Finance Initiative
PI	Performance Indicator
PLASC	Pupil Level Annual Schools Census – mid January
PMLD	Profound & Multiple Learning Difficulties
PMP	Placement Monitoring Panel (Social Care)
PPO	Parent Partnership Officer
PPS	Parent Partnership Services
PRU	Pupil Referral Unit
PSA	Public Service Agreement ( Local Authorities / Government)
PSCG	Pre-School Co-ordinating Group (Special or additional needs)
PSHE	Personal Social and Health Education
PSP	Pastoral Support Programme

Q
QP	Quality Protects (Government initiative to improve services to children)

S
SAO	School Attendance Order
SLT	Speech and Language Therapist
SATs	Standard Assessment Tasks
SCD	Social Communication Difficulties
SCRIP	South Central Regional Inclusion Partnership
SEN	Special Educational Needs
SENCO	Special Educational Needs Coordinator (in all Schools and Early Years settings)
SENDA	Special Educational Needs and Disability Act
SENDIST	Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal
SENJIT	Special Educational Needs Joint Initiative for Training (based at Institute of Education, University of London)
SES	Special Education Services
SF	Standards Fund
SIMS	Schools Information and Management System
SES	Special Educational Services
SLD	Severe Learning Difficulties
SMB	Schools Management Briefing
SPLD	Specific Learning Difficulties
SSD	Social Services Department
SSC	Specialist Sports College
SSCo	School Sports Coordinator Scheme
SSI	Social Services Inspectorate
STAG	Statutory Assessment Group
STS	Specialist Teaching Service
SWA	Social Work Assistant
SWIFT	Social Care’s central data system

T
TPB	Teenage Pregnancy Board
TSP	Training Support Programme
TVHA	Thames Valley Health Authority
TVP	Thames Valley Partnership
TVP	Thames Valley Police

W
WISC	Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children

Y
YISP	Youth Inclusion and Support Panel
YJB	Youth Justice Board
YOI	Young Offender Institutes
YOS	Youth Offending Service