Toolkit Matrix
Dear Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service,
In section 2.24 on page 13 of your current Cafcass Operating Framework document published on your website at:
https://www.cafcass.gov.uk/media/212819/...
You say:
"A ‘toolkit’ is available on the intranet to support practitioners in their direct work with adults and children; the toolkit matrix provides a guide on how to match the appropriate tool to the identified needs in the case."
1. Please provide a copy of this toolkit matrix showing how the appropriate tool is matched to the identified needs.
2. If you also have a tool that "identifies the needs in the case" please could you provide a copy of that tool too.
Many thanks
Yours faithfully,
G. Harrison
Dear G Harrison,
Thank you for your email.
Please accept this as a formal acknowledgement of your Freedom of
Information request which was received on 30 July 2017. Your reference
number is CAF 17-94.
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 25 August 2017.
Kind regards,
Governance Team | Cafcass
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Dear G Harrison,
Thank you for your email. Please find attached our response to your
Freedom of Information request.
Kind regards,
Governance Team | Cafcass
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Dear Governance - Cafcass,
Thank you for coming back to me about your Tools Matrix
The link you have provided to your own website doesn't work - please could you supply a working link or a document that covers what you were linking to?
In your response you say that you do not have a "specific tool" for use in identifying the needs of a case. Could you provide details of *any* tools that you have, specific or otherwise, that allow you to identify the needs of a case?
In light of your reply about the lack of a specific tool, could you confirm whether you have any specific training and/or elearning available on identifying the needs of a case and provide details of that training?
Likewise for the tools identified within your tools matrix, please would you provide details of any specific training and/or elearning that you make available for each of the named tools within your matrix?
many thanks
Yours sincerely,
G. Harrison
Dear G Harrison,
Please accept our apologies that the link to the tools matrix sent to you
did not work. Please see [1]here for a correct link to the tools matrix
(under ‘Tools for evidence Informed Practice’).
Cafcass does not have any tools for use in identifying the needs of a
case. The tools in the tools matrix support practitioners in their direct
work with adults and children and help improve the quality of evidence
informed analysis in our reports.
Cafcass does not any specific training or eLearning on identifying the
needs of a case. All training for our staff underpins our focus on being
child-centred and looking at the issues from the perspective of the child,
taking into account risk factors, evidence-based assessments, and
diversity issues. Every case is individual and depends on many factors
including, but not limited to, the child’s age, personality, stage of
development, relationship with the parent, as well as the relationship
between parents.
All social work staff are required to complete six core in-house training
modules upon joining the organisation, which will be completed within the
first six months:
· Risk and Harm in Cafcass;
· Legal Context and Court Skills;
· Case Work Start to Finish;
· Interviewing Skills in Cafcass;
· Child Sexual Exploitation;
· Introduction to Private Law/Public Law.
Cafcass has an eLearning module ’Private Law Assessment Tools’ which
broadly outlines how the tools can be used. The toolkit matrix itself also
provides a guide to which tool could be selected in which circumstance and
for what purpose, which will be identified by the practitioner when
planning a case.
Kind regards,
Governance Team | Cafcass
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Dear Governance - Cafcass,
Thank you for your response. Sadly the link didn't come through in your response - would you mind supplying it in full in the text of your response?
Also, you reference an elearning module ’Private Law Assessment Tools’. Would you supply a copy of the elearning module please - either as a scorm file or as a storyboard file - whichever is easiest for you.
Many thanks
Yours sincerely,
G. Harrison
Dear G Harrison,
Thank you for your email.
Please see below for the website URL for the tools matrix which you can
access using ‘Ctrl and Click’:
[1]https://www.cafcass.gov.uk/leaflets-reso...
If you are unable to access the matrix via the website link above please
let us know. Unfortunately as the direct hyperlink to the tools sent to
you in the email below did not work, if we send the full matrix to you as
email text, it is likely that the hyperlinks included in the matrix will
also not work if sent in this format, but please let us know if you would
still like us to supply the full matrix as email text.
Your request for the eLearning module ‘Private Law Assessment Tools’ will
be treated as a new FOI request.
Please accept this as a formal acknowledgement of your Freedom of
Information request which was received on 15 August 2017. Your reference
number is CAF 17-108.
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 12 September 2017.
Kind regards,
Governance Team | Cafcass
* [2][CAFCASS request email] | ü [3]www.cafcass.gov.uk
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Dear G Harrison,
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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