Common Assessment - Practitioners

Evaluation and Accreditation

If you have been on Common Assessment Training, to help us with the evaluation of the training and the process more widely, please complete our:

• Online Questionnaire

The questionnaire should take you no longer than ten minutes to complete. Once you have completed the questionnaire we will forward your Certificate to you.

Resources for Practitioners

The following are all resources for practitioners to use. If you have others then please use the link on the right to contact us and we can make these more widely available.

Practitioner Handbook

The following is Version 2 of the handbook - current from April 2008.

•  Northamptonshire CAF Practitioner Handbook (pdf format 2435kb)

Updates

The following are new to the Handbook in Version 2 and you will need to print these off if you have Version 1 of the Handbook (issued October - December 2007)

•  CAF Process Detail (pdf format 19kb)
•  CAF Process Overview (pdf format 22kb)

Forms

pdf Versions

•  CAF Form (pdf format 79kb)
•  CAF Action Plan (pdf format 57kb)
•  CAF Review Form 2007 (pdf format 49kb)
  

Word Versions
You can download these versions and fill them in electronically.

•  Common Assessment Form (Word format 336kb)  
•  CAF E Form Help (Word format 28kb) 
  Help for completing the electronic version of the form
•  Pre Assessment Checklist (Word format 90kb)
•  CAF Action Plan (Word format 87kb)
•  CAF Review Form (Word format 54kb)

Examples of Completed CAF Forms (Word & PDF versions)

•  CAF Form Example Ben (Word format 382kb)
•  CAF Form Example Ben (pdf format 93kb)
•  CAF Form Example Alyssa (Word format 346 kb)
•  CAF Form Example Alyssa (pdf format 92kb)

Supporting Materials

•  CAF Parents' Leaflet (pdf format 195kb)
•  CAF Supporting Toolkit (Word format 938kb)
•  Manager's Guide (pdf format 688kb)
•  Practitioner's Guide (pdf format 790kb)
•  Common Assessment - Its All About Me (Word format 1463kb)
  Form to use with young people
•  Invitation for Agencies to attend a Common Assessment.(Word format 34kb)
•  Agenda for a Multi agency meeting.(Word format 27kb)
•  Administrative Process.(Word format 45kb)
•  Contract for Conduct of Meetings (Word format 23kb)
•  Report of Unmet Need (Word format 38kb)

Family Partnership Model Materials

•  Family Partnership Model Core Training Application (Word format 76kb)
•  Family Partnership Leaflet (pdf format 863kb)

Other Resources

•   Multi Agency Working - A Glossary (pdf format 686kb)
•   What Do They Mean? - Acronyms & Jargon (Word format 298kb)
•  Eligibility for Social Care Services (pdf format 46kb)
•  What to Do if you are Worried a Child is being Abused (Word format 251kb)
  This is the Local Safeguarding Children Board's publication - see Related Links below for the LSCBN website.
•   Mental Health is Everyone's Business (pdf format 1900kb)
  Children and Young People’s Mental Health - A Handbook for Schools & other Agencies in Northamptonshire
•  Evaluation tool for the mental health handbook (Word format 111kb)

Online Service Directory
The Online Service directory gives information on services available throughout the County for practitioners, parents and Children & Young People. Please see Related Links below.