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Children's Services Referrals

Single Service Request Form

The Single Service Request form should be used when a child/young person has a single need. This form prompts practitioners to consider outcomes and, if more than one area of need is identified, the practitioner should then complete a Common Assessment Framework.

For Childrens' Services, the Single Service Request form also replaces the old referral form CSF 3155.

Forms and Guidance can be downloaded from:

• Single Service Request Forms and Guidance (includes Common Assessment Framework)

Common Assessment Framework Form and Supporting tools

To access CAF forms and Guidance documents including 'How to Complete a CAF' please go to:

• CAF Supporting Tools - Single Service Request Form and Guidance

CAF forms can also be accessed on schools SIMS system:

• www.thegrid.org.uk/info/traded/sitss/mis/sims/reporting.shtml#caf

Statutory Assessment

Schools - for guidance and forms for requesting a statutory assessment please go to the SEN web pages:

• SEN - Statutory Assessment

Integrated Services for Learning (ISL) New

A new service which brings staff together into integrated area teams across the county to provide support for children and young people with additional and special educational needs: - educational psychology, SEN, behaviour and attendance, early years and SEN, education support centres.

Access to support and advice about individual children from any of our teams in ISL is through a single service request form (SSR) with the exception of requests for statutory assessments of SEN which should go through the established Hertfordshire processes.support to settings. For more information:

• Integrated Services for Learning

Step Up/Step Down Process

A series of process diagrams have been created to show different types and levels of intervention and how a Step Up/Step Down process aims to address the ongoing needs of families, taking into account the issues raised. The processes outline work across the partnership of specialist, targeted and universal support (continuum of needs) and aim to enable a deliverable and effective transition for families, ensuring children are protected and families supported by a range of practitioners working together.

Further detailed information and the Step Up/Step Down process diagrams can be found at:

• www.hertssafeguarding.org.uk