EVIDENCE BASE for no adverse impact on children in CAFCASS OFSTED report

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Dear Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills,

In your open report of CAFCASS paragraph 43 you state:

Case plans and the recording on contact logs on children’s files are not easy to read, in a small number of cases they LACK CLARITY about work to be undertaken. Inspectors did not find an adverse impact for children arising from this because practitioners carry out their work with ‘CLARITY’ focus and purpose
1. Please provide the information OFSTED used here to demonstrate ‘how’ cases that as you state ‘lacked clarity’ did not affect children BECAUSE practitioners carry out their work with clarity ? [please explain this as it appears to be an oxymoron unless readers are missing a point]

2. Please provide the evidence base or methodology/statistical data/rationale OFSTED used to measure ‘how ‘these’ children were not adversely impacted’ where you IDENTIFIED cases LACKED CLARITY ?

3. How did OFSTED measure the NO adverse impact upon children who’s cases were not easy to read and lacked clarity with ‘accuracy’ just to ‘ensure’ the children were not adversely impacted and to ensure ‘every child’s voice was actually heard’ ?

Yours faithfully,

[Name Removed]

InformationRequest, Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills

Dear Ms Soeder,

 

Your request for information

 

Thank you for your email of 25 August 2019 in which you requested the
following information:

 

§  “In your open report of CAFCASS paragraph 43 you state:

Case plans and the recording on contact logs on children’s files are not
easy to read, in a small number of cases they LACK CLARITY about work to
be undertaken. Inspectors did not find an adverse impact for children
arising from this because practitioners carry out their work with
‘CLARITY’ focus and purpose 

1. Please provide the information OFSTED used here to demonstrate ‘how’
cases that as you state ‘lacked clarity’  did not affect children BECAUSE
practitioners carry out their work with clarity ? [please explain this as
it appears to be an oxymoron unless readers are missing a point]

2. Please provide the evidence base or methodology/statistical
data/rationale OFSTED used to measure ‘how ‘these’ children were not
adversely impacted’ where you IDENTIFIED cases LACKED CLARITY  ?

3. How did OFSTED measure the NO  adverse impact upon children who’s cases
were not easy to read and lacked clarity with ‘accuracy’ just to ‘ensure’
the children were not adversely impacted and to ensure ‘every child’s
voice was actually heard’ ?”

 

 

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Julie Hadler

Information Access Co-ordinator

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Alastair O'Neill, Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills

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Dear Ms Soeder

 

Please find attached our response to your request for information.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Alastair O’Neill

Information Access Officer

Information Rights and Access Team

Ofsted | 2 Rivergate | Temple Quay | Bristol | BS1 6EH

Direct Tel: 0300 013 1287

 

Ofsted Contact Centre: 0300 123 1231

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Dear Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills's handling of my FOI request 'EVIDENCE BASE for no adverse impact on children in CAFCASS OFSTED report'.

Thank you for your response and for the detail you have provided, however it may be helpful for OFSTED to know that fundamentally the CAFCASS practitioners are utilising ‘unvalidated tools’ in their tool matrix therefore

a. Did OFSTED identify the unvalidated tools CAFCASS practitioners are utilising ?
b. Did OFSTED ‘triangulate’ the unvalidated tools against the lack of clarity and consequential impact upon children ?

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

Yours faithfully,

[Name Removed]

Alastair O'Neill, Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills

Dear Ms Soeder,

Thank you for your email. You have submitted this via the internal review function of the 'WhatDoTheKnow' website; however, it is clear from your email that this is not a request for an internal review.

We will take forward the two new queries in your email on the same basis as your earlier request and will look to provide you with a response in due course.

Yours sincerely,

Alastair O’Neill
Information Access Officer
Information Rights and Access Team
Ofsted | 2 Rivergate | Temple Quay | Bristol | BS1 6EH
Direct Tel: 0300 013 1287

Ofsted Contact Centre: 0300 123 1231
www.gov.uk/ofsted
Ofsted on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Ofstednews

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Alastair O'Neill, Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills

Dear Ms Soeder,

Following my email of 26 September 2019; having made initial enquiries with the appropriate team, it would appear that we require further information from you so that we are able to respond to your queries.

Both of your queries relate to the use of 'unvalidated tools'; however, you do not provide any further information that clarifies what these tools may be. Without additional information, it is not possible for Ofsted to comment on this matter. Should you wish to clarify this we will consider your request further.

Furthermore, I should add, that this ongoing correspondence neither meets the criteria of an internal review or a new FOI request. You may find it more appropriate to direct your queries to our general mailbox where an appropriate team will respond directly to your query. The email address is [email address]

Yours sincerely,

Alastair O’Neill
Information Access Officer
Information Rights and Access Team
Ofsted | 2 Rivergate | Temple Quay | Bristol | BS1 6EH
Direct Tel: 0300 013 1287

Ofsted Contact Centre: 0300 123 1231
www.gov.uk/ofsted
Ofsted on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Ofstednews

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