Common Assessment Framework: Managers' and Practitioners' guides
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info@cwdcouncil.org.uk
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DCSF
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Information sharing and the
Common Assessment Framework,Multi-agency working
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Information and guidance
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September 2007
The Practitioners' guide is for all practitioners who want to know about the CAF and how to use it.
The CAF is a generic assessment for children with additional needs, which can be used by practitioners across all children's services in all local areas in England. It aims to help early identification of need, promote coordinated service provision and reduce the number of assessments that some children and young people go through.
The guidance has been refreshed (July 2009) to update the documents in line with recent policy changes, to make them more accessible. The CAF guidance now includes a table which maps CAF to other specialist assessments such as ASSET and Onset which should aid transitions between services, as well as new advice on sharing and storing of CAF forms, and making them fit with fair-processing.
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