SafetyNET and CAF Training
SafetyNET is a computer based system, managed within Sheffield City Council, which brings together a number of services to make sure children and young peoples needs can be identified and met.
Practitioners who use SafetyNET are from agencies that work with children or their parents. They have to be fully authorised by their agency and manager, checked and trained to allow them to use the system.
SafetyNET holds a record of every child under 18 years old in Sheffield, with 6 pieces of information - their name, age, gender, address, GP and education setting.
The system allows practitioners to log their involvement on a child's record, making it easier for practitioners to communicate and share appropriate information with each other about the child's needs.
Useful resources to guide practitioners who use the system to support young people, their parents and carers, are available here.
The aims of the Common Assessment Framework are to:
- provide a method of assessment to support earlier intervention
- improve joint working and communication between practitioners
- embed a common language of assessment and need
- develop a more consistent view of appropriate responses
- improve the co-ordination and consistency between assessments
- inform decisions about whether further specialist assessment is necessary and if so contribute information to it
- enable a picture of a child or young person’s needs to be built up over time and, with appropriate consent, shared among professionals
- provide better, more evidence-based referrals to targeted and specialist services
A number of short documents have been produced to help practitioners, young people and their parents and carers to understand and contribute to their assessment: you can access these documents here.
CAF and Lead Professional Training Tuesday 23rd March 2010 Thursday 6th May2010 The Circle, Rockingham Lane |
SafetyNET Helpdesk
Floor 4 Palatine Chambers
18-28 Pinstone Street
Sheffield
S1 2HN
Phone: 0114 27 35029/36646
Fax: 0114 27 36239
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