London CAF Protocol

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London CAF Protocol
Dr Niniola Olajide GOL Project Manager
Niniola.olajide_at_gol.gsi.gov.uk
Kevin Gordon Assistant Director, LB Lambeth GOL
YLM Mobility programme board
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Cross borough principles
Quality assurance
Information sharing
CAF Process
toolkit
CAF interface with other assessment tools
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• STOP CYP falling through the net
• STOP the confusion practitioners have about using
  the CAF to access out of borough services
• STOP bad quality assessments on CYPF
• STOP lack of ownership by CYPF over their own CAF
  assessments
• .Project supported by ALDCS.

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• Why a Pan London Approach
• Its worked before i.e Pan London Child Protection
  Procedures
• A level of consistency for families
• There may be different needs in different
  boroughs, but the processes for identifying,
  assessing and intervening is universal.
• Reducing the retraining burden
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• Why a Pan London Approach
• Reduces risk of children falling through the net.
• Acknowledgement that a level of uniformity is
  required to support ECAF enablement.
• Sharing the best practice that is already working

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• Local Authority CAF implementation survey
• 24 LAs participated (73)
• 50 - Have only been implementing CAF for 12
  months
• 40 - Have policies on cross-borough CAFs,
• 60 - Have an approach to quality monitoring

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1st Consultation period review LA CAF processes
2nd Consultation period review draft protocol
Protocol signed off by ALDCS
September
August
July
October
Develop 1st draft protocol
Launch
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• Workshops
• When do you need to start a CAF (A)
• What is the CAF process (B)
• Quality assurance of common assessments (C)
• Assessment tools and the CAF (D)

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Learning from the workshops will feed directly
into the development of the draft protocol Give
a little to hopefully get a lot for everyone.