Children and Young People's Services: a vision to
encourage and enable all children and young people in Suffolk to
aspire to and achieve their potential.
The Common Assessment Framework (CAF) is a key part of
delivering early frontline services that are integrated and focused
around the needs of children and young people. The CAF is a
standardised approach to conducting an assessment of a child's
additional needs and planning how those needs should be met.
ContactPoint is a national database of all
children aged 0-18 years in England. It will hold identifying
information for the child and contact details for their
parent(s)/carer(s) as well as services which are currently working
with the child.
There is no case or assessment information on ContactPoint and
only authorised users will be able to access the database.
Alice Redfearn is the Local Implementation Manager and can be
contacted on
Alice.Redfearn@cexec.suffolkcc.gov.uk or
07841 939820
Further details can be found on the
Every Child Matters Website
CAF Training
New Training Dates Added:
Online CAF and Information Sharing (IS) Training
Online CAF and IS training is free to those working with
children, young people and their families in Suffolk.
Online training is intended as a supplement to face to face
training. This training will deliver ‘Awareness Raising’ level of
knowledge and will act as a ‘taster’ if you are unfamiliar with the
concepts or as a reminder if you have completed full training.
The training will take around 20 minutes and there is a quiz at
the end to test your knowledge.
Once you filled out the following forms you will receive a
username and password to access the online training as below:
KWANGO online Common Assessment Framework (CAF) and
Information Sharing (IS) Training Public Website:
E-learning: http://www.kwango.com/sfkcaflogin
E-learning: http://www.kwango.com/sfkislogin
Once you have completed the online CAF or IS Training:
In order to work directly with CAF (ie complete the process
including the paperwork), you will need the full training which
takes a day.
Click on the links above to book training or contact
caf@cyp.suffolkcc.gov.uk
in the first instance, and as from 1st January
2009 please contact
admin.wfd@cyp.suffolkcc.gov.uk
if you would like to register for future training dates in your
cluster. Training will be arranged when sufficient demand is
identified.