Childcare/education
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Resources
Common Assessment Framework Training for Practitioners – new materials available
The Common Assessment Framework (CAF) is a nationally standardised approach to conducting an assessment of the needs of a child or young person and deciding how those needs should be met. The CAF will promote more effective, earlier identification of children's additional needs and improve multi-agency working. It is intended to provide a simple, non-bureaucratic process for a holistic assessment of a child's needs, taking account of the individual, family and community.
DfES commissioned the development of training materials to support the implementation of the CAF. A range of professionals and agencies were consulted during an intensive period of consultation over the summer in order to develop and refine these materials.
The revised training materials can be found here
Guidance and resources
Curriculum guidance for the foundation stage – guidance intended to help practitioners to meet the diverse needs of all children so that most will achieve and some, where appropriate, will go beyond the early learning goals by the end of the foundation stage. Copies of the guidance can be obtained from DfES Publications quoting reference: QCA/00/587
Sure Start SEN training pack – a resource pack for trainers and settings intended to encourage ‘best practice’ to be applied more evenly across all settings, resulting in earlier identification of children with SEN and more effective intervention. Copies of the training pack can be obtained from DfES Publications quoting reference: SS/SENTR/FS
