What does it mean? The CAF is a standard approach used across all areas of children's services to identify children and young people with additional needs early on and then co-ordinate the services to meet their needs.
It was designed in 2004 to tie in with the advent of Every Child Matters and is supposed to aid joint working, early intervention and information sharing.
If a practitioner has concerns about a child, they can fill in a pre-assessment checklist to help them decide if that child would benefit from a common assessment. The actual assessment follows four main stages: identifying needs early, assessing those needs, delivering integrated services and reviewing progress.
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