Integrated Working

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Integrated Working

• Integrated Working
• Common Assessment Framework
• Information Sharing

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Objectives

• Integrated Working
• Understand the principles and benefits of
  multi-agency working
• To know about the Integrated Working strategy and
  its main processes and tools

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Integrated Working
Integrated Processes and Tools
Lead Professional
Service Directory Infolink
Information Sharing Guidance
Common Assessment Framework
Children Missing Education
Integrated frontline service delivery

• Improved outcomes
• Be Healthy
• Stay safe
• Enjoy and achieve
• Make a positive contribution
• Achieve economic well-being

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Department for Children Schools and Families DCSF
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Benefits of Integrated Working
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A continuum of needs and services
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Key aims and principles of the CAF
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When to undertake a common assessment
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Who will use the CAF?

• Every practitioner who works with children, young
  people and their families should
• Be able to recognise and respond to key signs of
  need
• Know the CAF basics
• Know how to have a common assessment completed or
  how to complete one
• Every agency will train some staff to complete
  common assessments
• Where more than one practitioner is involved, one
  will take the lead

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The three key steps of the CAF process
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Vision and functions of lead professional
Vision All children and young people with
additional needs who require support from more
than one practitioner should experience a
seamless and effective service in which one
practitioner takes a lead role to ensure that
services are co-ordinated, coherent and achieving
intended outcomes
Core Functions
Obtain feedback from the family following CAF
action plan to inform future planning
Act as a single point of contact for the child or
family
Co-ordinate the delivery of actions agreed by the
practitioners involved
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Online Training

• Common Assessment Framework
• http//www.kwango.com/sfkcaflogin
• Information Sharing
• http//www.kwango.com/sfkislogin
• Safeguarding
• http//www.kwango.com/sfksclogin
• For all courses
• Username sfksccafis
• Password suffolk01 (zero one)

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• Customer First 08456 023 023
• www.suffolk.gov.uk/infolink
• www.suffolk.gov.uk/caf
• www.ecm.gov.uk
• Email
• caf_at_suffolk.gov.uk.