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1. Staffordshire Children & Young People's Continuum of Need Framework
(previously called the Threshold Framework).
If you work with children and young people within a universal service, this tool will help you identify the key poits at which an additional service may be required.

  Continuum of Need Framework (287kb)

2. Integrated Working Drill Down Questionnaires
These questions underpin the integrated working drill down element of the One Children's Workforce Tool.  This is a self evalution for Children's Trusts which aim to assess where their children's workforce is currently positioned on a spectrum from fragmented to integrated & high quality in relation to integrated working practices. 
It covers multi agency working, information sharing, the Common Assessment Framework, Team Around the Child and the lead professional role.  

  Leaders and Managers Questionnaire (537kb)
  Practitioners Questionnaire (486kb)

The Drill Down questionnaires are still available for indivividual teams to use, but data will not be included in the Children's Development Workforce Council (CDWC) results.

3. CAF / National eCAF
Staffordshire has become one of the early adopters of eCAF, the national system which allows a practitioner to electronically create, store and share a CAF securely.  It will give practitioners from different sectors, who are approved and trained to use the system, appropriate access to key information concerning the assessment.
For more information please visit the CAF website.

  National e-CAF Factsheet (294kb)
  Benefits of CAF and National e-CAF (86.6KB)

4. Think Family
All local authorities are receiving the Think Family Grant in 2009 - 2011 to implement better co-ordinated support to families at risk.  The Think Family Toolkit is a useful publication for local authorities and their partners to help to implement Think Family reforms and contains more information about projects that are being funded through the grant such as Family Intervention Projects, Parenting Early Intervention Programmes and Family Pathfinders.

  Think Family (Draft Guidance Feb 2009) (682kb)

Further information is available on the Department for Children, Schools and Families webpage: 
http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/everychildmatters/strategy/parents/ID91askclient/thinkfamily/tf/

5. District Inclusion Partnerships (DIPs) and Pupil Referral Units (PRUs)

  District Inclusion Partnerships (DIPs) and Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) - Briefing Paper (March 2009) (79.6kb)

 

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