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Common Assessment Framework (CAF)
The Common Assessment Framework provides a universal assessment tool for early intervention for practitioners working with children, young people and their families. It provides an initial checklist to be used for assessing children the results of which highlight any additional or specialist support bringing together agencies to share information, undertake appropriate assessments and provide multi agency support.
The aims of CAF is to assess a child’s needs at the first sign of difficulty so as to prevent a child’s needs becoming more serious’. This therefore provides a good opportunity to identify any domestic abuse that the child may be affected by in order to offer early integrated support to the child and the non abusing parent.
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