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CAF Act 2014 Factsheets

The Council for Disabled Children have produced useful factsheets to provide additional information to IAS Services, practitioners, parents and young people that meet both the letter and the spirit of the Children and Families Act (CFA) 2014.

Click on the link below to access the factsheets.

  • Advocacy

  • Annual reviews

  • Complaints

  • Consultation duties

  • Direct payments

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  • EHC assessment

  • EHC plan

  • Health duties

  • Information advice service

  • Introduction to part 3 of the CFA

  • Judicial review

  • Key definitions

  • Legal aid

  • Local offer

  • Mediation

  • Personal budgets

  • PfA

  • Pupils with medical conditions

  • SEN early years

  • SEN Support FE

  • Social care assessment

  • Social care assessment over 18

  • Specialist advice and support

  • Tribunal - 1st tier

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