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Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. National Context

1.1		Every Child Matters
1.2		Every Disabled Child Matters
1.3		Safeguarding is Everyone’s Business
1.4		Emotional Well Being and Mental Health is Everybody’s Business
1.5		Think Family: Improving The Life Chances of Families at Risk

2. Memorandum of Understanding

3. Integrated Working Across All Levels of Need

4. Northamptonshire Vulnerability Matrix and Threshold Criteria

5. Definition of a Team around the Family (TAF)

6. Lead Professional

7. The Relationship between CAF and other assessments

8. Northamptonshire Threshold Criteria for Children and Young People Receiving Specialist Services from Social Care

9. Step Up and Step Down Procedures

10. Information Sharing

11. Northamptonshire Homeless Protocol

12. Area Based Working (ABW) and Local Operational Teams (LOTs)