Thresholds and CAF

London LA children's social care thresholds guidance

Please follow the link below to download the London LA children’s social care thresholds guidance.

  London LA children's social care thresholds guidance

This is intended as a guide to help explain LA children’s social care’s application of thresholds to referrals made to its service, and was originally developed by a subgroup of the London Development Officers Network 18 months ago. Publication was put on hold when work began on producing a CAF Protocol for London, but as that project neared completion we received a number of requests to make our original guide available for local authorities to use alongside it as and if they wish. Following additional consultation over May / June 2009, the guidance has been tweaked slightly to ensure it fits alongside the pan-London CAF protocol and is now presented for any local authority which finds it useful – please note that its use is not compulsory.

Pan-London Common Assessment Framework Protocol

The Pan London CAF Protocol was developed to address the challenges of child mobility in London and to improve the way services respond to children and young people receiving support in more than one borough.

The Protocol was developed by the Mobility Project Board to support cross-borough working in the capital and is effective from 1st September 2009.

The Pan London CAF Protocol is intended for use by any practitioner and operational line manager in any sector, when supporting a child or young person through a common assessment which involves cross-border working. Please follow the link below to download a copy or for information on the GOL and ME Learning training course.