The Common Assessment Framework (CAF) is an important part of
the procedures envisaged in the government¿s Every Child Matters:
Change for Children (ECM: CFC) programme. Implementation of CAF,
in particular, raises many important questions, not least those arising
from the inconsistencies apparent between government rhetoric
around the development of multi-agency services provided to all
children with `additional¿ needs and the actual experiences of children,
young people, parents/carers and practitioners in `real world¿
situations. This paper explores the extent to which the actions of
practitioners and the experiences of service users with regard to CAF
mirror or differ from those which would be expected in view of the
content of government guidance and policy documents.The data used
is taken from an evaluation of CAF processes in two locations in
northern England over a period of 6 months. It concludes that very
small numbers of children and young people actually received the
service; that, despite genuine enthusiasm from practitioners for them
to be so, the processes observed could not yet be described as fully
`child centred¿; that fathers were insufficiently involved; and that CAF
was, in reality, another service `rationed¿ according to resources
available and according to agencies¿ priorities.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/2712 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Gilligan, Philip A., Manby, M. |
| Publisher | Blackwell Publishing |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, final draft paper |
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