Glossary - R
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RA - Reading Age.
Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 - Dealing with race relations in the public sector, requiring that issues such as race equality, race relations and unlawful discrimination are dealt with effectively.
RCB - Remanded on Conditional Bail (to be followed by bail conditions).
Receiving Authority - The borough/authority where the child/family have moved.
Reception Class - These take children at four and five, some starting children off with half-day sessions. There must be at least one adult for every 13 children. Staff are qualified teachers and assistants.
Red Book - Personal Child Health Record (PCHR). A health record of a child aged 0-5 years which is retained by the prime carer but is the property of the secretary of State for Health.
REEF - Race Employment and Education Forum.
Referral - A request for help for someone in need of assessment, usually written down in brief notes. A third party usually makes these on behalf of someone else, for example a social worker for a service user, of a GP for a patient.
Reflector - Cautious, thorough and methodical learners, good at listening and absorbing information.
Refuge - 24 hour crisis line for women who are victims of domestic violence. They also provide support and counselling as well as helping to find emergency accommodation.
Registered Childcare Provision - Childcare registered and inspected by OFSTED. All provision for more than two hours per day for children aged 0-8 must be registered and inspected on a regular basis.
Regulations - Subordinate legislation deriving its authority from an Act of Parliament, legally binding on governing bodies and others (see also Statutory Instrument).
Reinforcement - A 'reward' or 'punishment' process that leads to learning.
Remodelling - Remodelling is set out in a national agreement signed by the Secretary of State that aims to reform the school workforce. It is about giving teachers more time, extra support and renewed leadership in order to reduce teacher workload, raise standards, increase job satisfaction and improve the status of the profession.
Reparation - Where a young offender carries out work for the victim of their crime or to a community, to recompense for the crime. The work should be commensurate with the seriousness of the crime. Examples include cleaning graffiti, repairing criminal damage.
Residential Family Centre - A centre in which a family lives for a set period. Children remain under their parent’s care whilst living in the centre.
Residential Home - A category of home that provides personal care and other services and whose work has to be monitored by Local Authority Registration and Inspection.
Respite Care - Provided by day or residential unit for the benefit of the subject of the care and their family.
Restraint - Control to prevent a person from harming themselves or other people. This can be applied by either physical means, mechanical means or medication.
Review - Meeting to review professional work to support a child or young person.
RIC - Remand in Custody.
RISS - Register of Independent Schools.
RLAA - Remand in Local Authority Accommodation.
RMO - Responsible Medical Officer. A sort of psychiatrist.
RSO - Residence Order.
RTA - Road Traffic Accident.
RUB - Remanded on Unconditional Bail.
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