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The Common Assessment Framework (For Children and Young People) is a standardised approach to conducting assessments of children's additional needs and deciding how these should be met. The Common Assessment Framework (For Children and Young People) is a key part of delivering frontline services that are integrated, and are focused around the needs of children and young people. It can be used by practitioners across children's services in England.

The Common Assessment Framework (For Children and Young People) promotes more effective, earlier identification of additional needs, particularly in universal services. It aims to provide a simple process for a holistic assessment of children's needs and strengths; taking account of the roles of parents, carers and environmental factors on their development. Practitioners are then better placed to agree with children and families about appropriate modes of support. The Common Assessment Framework (For Children and Young People) also aims to improve integrated working by promoting coordinated service provisions.

For further information on the Common Assessment Framework (For Children and Young People), see the Department for Children, Schools and Families website.For further information on the Common Assessment Framework (For Children and Young People), see the Department for Education website.

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A Looked After Child (also referred to as a Child Looked After) is a PERSON.

A Looked After Child is a child in the care of a Local Authority either:

• through a Care Order made by a court or
• voluntary agreement with their parent(s) to accommodate them.

They may be looked after:

• in a Children's Home,
• by foster carers, or
• other family members.

All Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children are also Looked After Children.

For further information on Looked After Children, see the Department for Children Schools and Families website.For further information on Looked After Children, see the Department for Education website.

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The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is the independent ORGANISATION responsible for providing national guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill health.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence produces guidance in three areas of health:

• public health - guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention of ill health for those working in the NHS, local authorities and the wider public and voluntary sector;
• health technologies - guidance on the use of new and existing medicines, treatments and procedures within the NHS;
• clinical practice - guidance on the appropriate treatment and care of people with specific diseases and conditions within the NHS.

Further information on the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, see the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence website.

This supporting information is also known by these names:

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shortname	NICE

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A type of PERSON PROPERTY.

Observations made regarding a PERSON. These observations do not include information about a treatment or intervention.

CATEGORY VALUED PERSON OBSERVATION allows coded classifications of observations about a PERSON and includes:

• ACCOMMODATION
• ALCOHOL STATUS
• ASPIRIN THERAPY LOCATION
• BLEED COMPLICATION
• CONTRACEPTION
• DISABILITY
• DISABILITY SEVERITY
• ETHNIC CATEGORY
• JOINT REPLACEMENT REVISION CLASSIFICATION
• LANGUAGE CLASSIFICATION
• LANGUAGE FLUENCY
• MENTAL HEALTH ACT LEGAL STATUS CLASSIFICATION
• PATIENT CLINICAL GROUP
• PERFORMANCE STATUS
• PERSON GENDER
• PERSON MARITAL STATUS
• REFUGEE OR ASYLUM SEEKER
• RELIGIOUS OR OTHER BELIEF SYSTEM AFFILIATION
• RELIGIOUS OR OTHER BELIEF SYSTEM AFFILIATION GROUP
• SARCOMA PREDISPOSING CONDITION
• SEXUAL ORIENTATION
• SKIN LYMPHOMA MORPHOLOGY

Note: MEASURED PERSON OBSERVATION allows for recording of measurements about a PERSON and OTHER PERSON OBSERVATION is where the PERSON states, for example, when they first experienced symptoms, the number of days on which alcohol has been consumed etc.

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A classification of a CATEGORY VALUED PERSON OBSERVATION.

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An indication of whether a PERSON has a Learning Disability. This may be derived from PATIENT DIAGNOSIS or collected explicitly.

A Learning Disability may be a:

• Registered DISABILITY, which is recorded using REGISTERED DISABILITY CODE if the PERSON is registered disabled; or
• Registered DISABILITY, if the PERSON is registered disabled; or
• Perceived DISABILITY, which is recorded using PERCEIVED DISABILITY CODE if the clinician considers the PATIENT to have a Learning Disability but it is not formally registered.

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This is the priority of a request for services; in the case of services to be provided by a CONSULTANT, it is as assessed by or on behalf of the CONSULTANT.

Priority Type 'Urgent' should be used where the request for services is defined as clinically urgent, but it does not fall under the criteria for 'Two Week Wait' (see below).

Priority Type 'Two Week Wait' should be used where either:

the request for services meets the criteria for an urgent GENERAL PRACTITIONER referral for suspected cancer. These referrals should be made in accordance with the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) clinical guidelines on referral for suspected cancer. See NICE guidance  These referrals should be made in accordance with the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) clinical guidelines on referral for suspected cancer. For further information, see the NICE guidance 

or

the PATIENT has been referred urgently for breast symptoms, but the referral does not meet the criteria for urgent GENERAL PRACTITIONER referrals for suspected cancer

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An indication of whether a PERSON is a REFUGEE OR ASYLUM SEEKER.

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