Nottinghamshire Common Assessment Framework Handbook

The CAF Quality Assurance Group should also feed back the results of the evaluation
process to line managers/service managers/ heads of service to help them in:
n identifying the training needs for their practitioners
n monitoring the CAF process
n identifying issues for supervision
n identifying support or development needs in services for local authority
CAF teams
n identifying support or development needs in services across the Children’s Trust to
enable all services to achieve the Regional Minimum Standards for the Common
Assessment Framework (CAF) within Integrated Working Practices in the East
Midlands (see Appendix P)
n performance management of services within Children’s Trusts
n establishing more effective cross authority working
n identifying gaps in the service provision and/or disparities in the supply
and demand of the service provision.
The CAF Quality Assurance Group will make any recommendations to workforce
development leads/training managers/CAF Project Managers to highlight identified
areas for improvement to existing CAF training and any additional items that need
attention or inclusion.
The CAF Quality Assurance Group will feedback any issues or concerns relating to gaps
in service provision and problems around service engagement to the Children’s Trust
commissioners.
Step 6: Improvements to the CAF Process
The improved training, supervision and service supply as a result of the Quality
Framework and the resultant improved outcomes for children and young people
completes the cycle of the Quality Framework.
Governance of the Quality Framework
The Children’s Act 2004, as amended by the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and
Learning (ASCL) Act 2009, places a duty on all ‘relevant partners’ to work together
within the Children’s Trust co-operation arrangements. The ASCL Act also requires that
every area should have in place a Children’s Trust Board by April 2010 which will have
responsibility for preparing the Children and Young People’s Plan (CYPP). As part of
developing the CYPP, the local authority working with their partners in the Children’s
Trust, take the lead in developing and integrating processes to enable staff in the
different agencies to work together as a Team around the Child or family — this
includes CAF.
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