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patevans
11-10-2008, 12:54 PM
Has anyone done this? what did you think of it? I had it this morning for 2.5 hours and its just another thing helping me hate my job more!! Does anyone have any details about it a policy or written anywhere?

jellytot
11-10-2008, 01:24 PM
may seem dim here but what is it?

patevans
11-10-2008, 01:25 PM
may seem dim here but what is it?

http://www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/deliveringservices/caf/

Pauline
11-10-2008, 02:15 PM
Has anyone done this? what did you think of it? I had it this morning for 2.5 hours and its just another thing helping me hate my job more!! Does anyone have any details about it a policy or written anywhere?

I'm currently doing the on-line one. Will be posting a review when I've finished, finding it quite informative. You can find out more here:

Integrated Working and CAF (http://scripts.affiliatefuture.com/AFClick.asp?affiliateID=83748&merchantID=1709&programmeID=4904&mediaID=28036&tracking=&url=http://www.ukvirtual-college.co.uk/Integrated_Working_CAF)

CAF stands for Common Assessment Framework, it is working with other professionals to ensure that children are not missed and slip through the 'net' when it comes to protection. Following the Victoria Climbie murder the inquiry showed that sharing information and working together was the key to preventing such a thing ever happening again.

breezy
11-10-2008, 03:23 PM
Touch on this on my safeguarding children course, but doing this specifically in January!

mrsb
11-10-2008, 04:47 PM
oohh thanks for that link Pauline, we've been talking about doing this at pre school :)

miss mopple
11-10-2008, 08:24 PM
I've done all three bits of the CAF training and thought most of it was really interesting. The data protection/information sharing evening was dull as dishwater but the rest was ok.

Gherkin
12-10-2008, 08:10 AM
I want to do CAF training but tried to sign up for Feb 09 (which wasn't in our training book) only to be told that it is full. So Pauline I may be looking at the online once you have reveiwed it.

Tatia
12-10-2008, 09:22 AM
I've done some training and I thought it was fantastic. It's a giant leap forward in protecting the rights of children as well as getting a 'team around the child' in place. One little guy I had (he's moved away now:( had a CAF as he had ben in care up North and then his Dad got custody :clapping: and moved down here. I got very angry when the school would hold meetings regarding his CAF with a social worker who had never even met him and a representative from his school (again, never having met him) and I hadn't been invited along when I was the one who held him when he sobbed about missing his mother and who dealt with his acting out ona regular basis because he was so confused.

I might seem as if I'm contradicting myself but I'm really not.:o CAF is the way to go but at the moment childminders have to fight for their right to have their say and we shouldn't have to. It's the whole struggling to be taken as a professional thing.:rolleyes:

Pauline
13-10-2008, 08:49 PM
I want to do CAF training but tried to sign up for Feb 09 (which wasn't in our training book) only to be told that it is full. So Pauline I may be looking at the online once you have reveiwed it.

I've finished the course and done the reivew if you want to know more:

http://childmindinghelp.co.uk/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=77

sharons
13-10-2008, 11:03 PM
Hi I have my caf trainning tomorrow, hope its interesting