state, does not change their status or entitlements to services or protection. Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) Guardian - When working with children in respect of public law legal proceedings, the Cafcass worker is known as a children’s guardian. The guardian’s most important role is to make sure that local authority arrangements and decisions for and about children protect them, promote their welfare and are in their best interests. Children’s homes - The Care Standards Act 2000 provides that ‘an establishment is a children’s home… if it provides care and accommodation wholly or mainly for children’. Children’s Social Care – Children’s social care exists to support children, young people and families, to protect children and young people by intervening decisively when they 61 are at risk of harm and to provide care for those who need it so that they grow up and thrive with safety, stability and love. Corporate parent - the term used to describe the local authority who has responsibilities to support looked after children and care leavers in a way that other children are supported by their parents. Corporate parenting principles are set out in https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/16/section/1/enactedSection 1 of the Children and Social Work Act 2017. Domestic abuse - The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 introduced the first ever statutory definition of domestic abuse (section 1 of the Act). The statutory definition is clear that domestic abuse may be a single incident or a course of conduct which can encompass a wide range of abusive behaviours, including a) physical or sexual abuse; b) violent or threatening behaviour; c) controlling or coercive behaviour; d) economic abuse; and e) psychological, emotional or other abuse. Under the statutor