Formal Guidance in Place to Support Digital or Online Contact Arrangements - Find a freedom of information request

1. Please could you confirm whether your local authority has formal policies and/or formal guidance in place to support digital or online contact arrangements specifically?

If yes, please could you answer the following questions.

a. Do you have formal policies and or guidance do you have in place to guide practitioners and professionals regarding digital contact?

i. If yes may I have a copy(ies) or if they are included in your publication scheme or otherwise publicly available please could you direct me to their links and titles of documents.

b. Do you have formal policies/guidance supporting kinship carers, foster carers, special guardians, or other carers regarding digital contact?

i. If yes, may I have a copy(ies) or if they are included in your publication scheme or otherwise publicly available please could you direct me to their links and titles of documents.

c. Do you have formal policies/guidance supporting birth parents of children who are being cared for or have been adopted regarding digital contact?

i. If yes, may I have a copy(ies) or if they are included in your publication scheme or otherwise publicly available please could you direct me to their links and titles of documents.

d. Do you have formal policies/guidance supporting children and young people who are being cared for or have been adopted regarding digital contact?

i. If yes. may I have a copy(ies) or if they are included in your publication scheme or otherwise publicly available please could you direct me to their links and titles of documents.

e. Other (please state) e.g. general policies supporting digital/online contact arrangements.

i. May I have a copy(ies) or if they are included in your publication scheme or otherwise publicly available please could you direct me to their links and titles of documents.

2. Do you provide any training or training course(s) to equip the digital literacy/competence of children and young people in care?

3. Do you provide any training or training course(s) to equip the digital literacy/competence of birth parents of children and young people in care?

4. Do you provide any training or training course(s) to equip the digital literacy/competence of carers including kinship, foster, special guardians, and other carers?

5. Do you provide any training or training course(s) to equip the digital literacy/competence of practitioners and professionals involved with digital contact arrangements?

6. If your LA provides training programmes for any of the above groups in support of digital/online contact arrangements, please can you signpost me to any links including publication scheme, or online advertising, or supply any other leaflets, advertising or course content relating to questions 2-5.

Lincolnshire County Council does not have policy or guidance in relation to digital Family Time.

However, the Council did provide some guidance at the start of the Covid Pandemic when Family Time could only be delivered virtually.