Assessment Frameworks – Children are continually assessed throughout their childhood until they have completed education or further education and up to the age of 25 for children with disabilities and additional needs and those who have been in the care of the Local Authority. They are used by all agencies, starting with Health from the minute they are born, assessing and monitoring development through a series of checks, looking at whether children are healthy and developing as they should in order to meet their milestones. Nurseries, pre-schools and schools continually monitor and assess development to ensure a child is making academic progress.

The frameworks used in our team would be the Early Help Assessment (previously known as the Common Assessment Framework or CAF) which would be completed in order to identify specific support required by a family or an individual within that family. Whilst the Early Help Assessment is voluntary there is a requirement by certain agencies for it to be completed in order to access services. The information written in the assessment is only shared with other professionals with consent …show more content…
They are carried out continually within a school setting and the evidence of the observations can be useful to share if further support is required or identified. In our role we are requested to undertake observations by the Community Paediatrician in order to support them in their decision making when it comes to a diagnosis of ADHD. These observations are called T.O.A.D which stands for Talking out of turn, Out of Seat, Attention problems, Disruption. The child is observed on three separate occasions, in a different lesson and is observed against another child in the same class who is deemed to be ‘normal’. The number of times a child does any of these things is noted and totalled and the forms shared with the Community