Assessment of Emotional Harm

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Dear Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service,

Please provide the following information you hold under FOIA

1. All training CAFCASS FCA’s have undertaken in Emotional Harm ‘since their employment with CAFCASS commenced ? [please do not supply me with any qualifications in general social work but only training in emotional harm undertaken within their CAFCASS employment] please include a copy of the training modules in emotional harm (specifically emotional harm please do not supply related modules)

2. Of that training please supply the completion rates year on year since it’s provision

3. Please provide the assessment the FCA would access i.e template, guidance, tools they use to make an analysis of
a. symptoms of emotional harm
b. manifestations of Emotional harm

and how they identify these A & B in

1. The child(REN)
2. The applicant in proceedings
3. The defendant in proceedings
4. Vulnerable adults.

Please keep the scope of this request specifically to the questions and if you do not hold any of the information please state this clearly. ( please do not supply information about general social work qualifications).

Yours faithfully,

[Name Removed]

Governance, Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service

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Dear Ms Soeder,

Thank you for your email.

Please accept this as a formal acknowledgement of your Freedom of
Information request which was received on 27 August 2019. Your reference
number is CAF 19-138.

We aim to respond to you promptly, and at the latest 20 working days from
receipt of your request. You will therefore receive a response on or
before 23 September 2019.

Kind regards,

Governance Team | Cafcass

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Dear Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service's handling of my FOI request 'Assessment of Emotional Harm'.

Please supply all of the information I requested, if emotional harm is identified by an FCA In CAFCASS risk and harm used in assessment please provide the information i.e the full risk and harm module, guidance, training, assessment and any other documents/ guidance trying FCA’s use to document emotional abuse.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/a...

Yours faithfully,

[Name Removed]

Governance, Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service

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Dear Ms Soeder,

Thank you for your email which let us know that you were unhappy with the
decision made in the FOI response of CAF 19-138  and requested a review of
the decision.

This email serves to acknowledge that your request was received on 06
September 2019 and will be dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.

A Senior Officer who was not party to the original decision on whether to
release the information will conduct the internal review. An internal
review involves a review of the decision on disclosure in the original
response and the way in which the request was handled. The internal
reviewer can either uphold or overturn the original decision.

Cafcass will notify you as to the final decision made regarding your
internal review 20 working days from receipt of your request.  You will
therefore receive a response on or before  03 October 2019.

Kind regards,

Governance Team | Cafcass

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Dear Ms Soeder,

Thank you for your email. Please find attached our response to your
request for an internal review of your Freedom of Information request.

Kind regards,

Governance Team | Cafcass

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Dear Governance,

Please provide ‘full’ and clear training module in Risk and harm preferably omitting where oops you’ve got it wrong is repeated.

Please provide a blank Risk and harm module.

Yours sincerely,

[Name Removed]

Governance, Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service

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Dear Ms Soeder,

Thank you for your email.

The storyboard of the Risk and Harm eLearning module is the full eLearning
module. The storyboard contains all the information and activities
including if a participant was to select any of the possible correct or
incorrect answers  to questions in the activities in the modules.

Cafcass does not have a 'blank' version of the eLearning storyboard.
Cafcass does not hold the requested information; as a response to this
request would require the creation of new information, the request is not
valid under the Freedom of Information Act.

Kind regards,

Governance Team | Cafcass

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Dear Governance

Please provide all the information to include the Calder model referenced which the FCA applies to the mothers mental health, the story boards and all materials and scenarios that accompany this training . The request sought all the information on risk and harm available and that Cafcass hold.

Yours sincerely,

[Name Removed]

Governance, Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service

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Dear Ms Soeder,

Thank you for your email.

Please note that although you have asked for an internal review of you FOI
request (CAF19-138), an internal review of this request has already been
completed. A response to your internal review was provided on 27 September
2019. The information you have requested is new information and therefore
this will be treated as a new Freedom of Information request.

Please accept this as a formal acknowledgement of your Freedom of
Information request which was received on 18 December 2019.

Your reference number is CAF 19-213.

We aim to respond to you promptly, and at the latest 20 working days from
receipt of your request. You will therefore receive a response on or
before 17 January 2020.

Kind regards,

Governance Team | Cafcass

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Governance, Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service

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Dear Ms Soeder,

Thank you for your email. Please find attached our response to your
Freedom of Information request.

Kind regards,

Governance Team | Cafcass

* [1][CAFCASS request email] | ü [2]www.cafcass.gov.uk 

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Cafcass email addresses have changed to end in @cafcass.gov.uk. Please
ensure you update your address book. For more information on this change
please see our  [3]website

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