A Common Assessment for Children in Need? Mixed Messages from a Pilot Study in Wales
A Common Assessment for Children in Need? Mixed Messages from a Pilot Study in Wales
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对有需要的儿童进行共同评估？
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2006
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A. Pithouse
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A. Pithouse
威尔士和英格兰政府儿童和家庭服务政策的核心要素是多机构合作的概念，以满足儿童的需求，特别是使用基本的通用评估工具，以便在转诊时迅速、一致地提供信息。本文报道了威尔士议会政府资助的一项研究，旨在设计和测试一个共同的评估框架（CAF），将有需要的儿童转介给社会服务。该计划由一个社会服务部门及其合作伙伴在南威尔士的一个城市地方当局地区进行了试点，并将结果与从一个邻近当局收集的数据进行了比较，该当局在转诊时使用了另一种方法来获取信息。一项半实验性的评价方法表明，社区援助框架确实促进了更好的信息共享，而且似乎确实促进了对转诊作出更有针对性的服务反应。然而，它也表明，一些职业群体参与儿童发展框架中需要就儿童发展方面提出意见的特定评估领域的能力有限。此外，一些专业人员在填写儿童援助框架时，显然不可能征求儿童的意见。在这方面，采用社区援助框架很可能会暴露出需要在评估的概念和进行方面进行持续的综合培训，以帮助在地方一级形成技能和一致性-在实施之前，不应假定存在这两者。
A core element of government policy for child and family services in Wales and England is the notion of multi-agency collaboration in order to meet the needs of children, and in particular the use of a basic common assessment tool in order to provide information swiftly and consistently when making referrals. This paper reports on a Welsh Assembly Government funded study to design and test a common assessment framework (CAF) for referring children in need to social services. The scheme was piloted by a social services department and its partners in an urban local authority area in South Wales, and results were compared with data gathered from a neighbouring authority that used an alternative method for obtaining information at the point of referral. A semi-experimental method of evaluation indicated that the CAF did facilitate better information sharing and did appear to promote a more focused service response to referrals. However, it also revealed a limited capacity among some occupational groups to engage with particular assessment fields in the CAF that required comments on aspects of child development. It was also evident that some professionals were unlikely to seek the views of children when completing the CAF. In this respect, introducing a CAF may well expose the need for ongoing integrated training in the concepts and conduct of assessment to help generate skills and consistency at the local level—neither of which should be assumed to be present in advance of implementation.