Team Around the Family (TAF)

A TAF is a multi-disciplinary team of practitioners established on a case-by-case basis to support a child, young person or family.

TAF supports particular elements of good professional practice in joined-up working, information sharing and early intervention.  The TAF is a model of service delivery that involves:-

• a joined-up assessment, usually a Common Assesment Framework (CAF)
• a Lead Professional (LP) to coordinate the work
• the child/young person and family at the centre of the process
• a virtual or flexible multi-agency team that will change as needs change
• coordination at the point of delivery
• a TAF support plan to meet the needs of the child/young person
• regular meetings to which the child/young person and families are invited to attend.

Shepway District brought together managers and practitioners across children’s services in the locality, and set out in the document below how they work together to make Team Around the Family arrangements effective for the children, young people and families they serve.

The bottom-up process of developing this Team Around the Family resource has helped strengthen inter-professional trust and cooperation.

• Shepway Team Around the Family (TAF)