Assessing Children in Need and their Families: Practice Guidance

The knowledge which is available to assist them has expanded dramatically over the last two decades. However, it has not always been easily available to practitioners and their managers. The development of the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families (issued by the National Assembly for Wales, 2001) has drawn heavily, from many disciplines, on the wealth of research and accumulated practice experience about the developmental needs of children.

The aim of the practice guidance in this accompanying publication is to make transparent the evidence base for the Assessment Framework, thereby assisting professionals in their tasks of analysis, judgement and decision making.