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CF Social Work provides high quality social work intervention through its extensive network of experienced social workers from various disciplines and specialisms.


CF Social Work can respond quickly and flexibly, offering individual independent social workers, a social work practice model, or intervention, to deliver a range of assessments and undertake small or more significant projects to assist busy local authorities and children’s legal firms across the UK. Our services are both spot purchased and contracted, with repeat custom as evidence of our continued high-quality and best value provision.

I can confirm that the final hearing in respect the P children concluded on Friday.I would just like to thank you for your assistance in this matter. Your evidence was compelling and enhanced the Local Authority’s case greatly. Counsel has commented on how well you presented your evidence. Well done and thank you. We are much obliged and I look forward to working with you again.

Solicitor - Essex County Council Essex Legal Services

I want to thank you and the team at CF Social work for the consistency, hard work and professionalism you showed in supporting the young person gain regular supervised contact with her family members, despite her being many miles away from them. It was so valuable to the young person’s first experience in the care system that she was supported by yourself and the contact workers to have regular, consistent and positive interaction with her parents and extended family members.

Catrin - Bracknell-Forest LA

CF Social Work is a well-established and respected company located in Suffolk and works with many local authorities including Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, the Home Counties and London Boroughs.

The company provides a range of assessment services to local authorities and legal firms working with children and families who are subject to public and private law proceedings. Run by experienced senior managers with over 30 years' extensive social work practice and management across multiple disciplines, the company provides a variety of assessment and practice expertise.

The experience of the Management Team is supported by a large network of independent social work practitioners and experts. CF Social Work also has access to professionals from other disciplines including psychologists, substance misuse experts, domestic violence experts, counsellors, offender risk management experts and therapeutic social workers trained to work in the area of child sexual abuse. These add to the breadth of expertise within the company and enables us to respond to any size or type of project that our commissioners may request.

CF Social Work ensures robust quality assurance procedures internally, and welcomes external scrutiny of its services. We have affiliation with BASW and the ICO providing a further benchmark for quality and safety.

CF Social Work is a leading provider of high-quality expert social work and psychological assessments.

All our assessments include a thorough high-quality written report, completed by one of our experienced social workers. A key aspect of our service is robust quality assurance carried out by experienced consultant social workers and psychologists.

This process ensures that all reports are comprehensive and respond to the instructions within the letter of instruction; they focus on the needs of the child, are balanced and analytical.

Our Quality Assurance team has significant experience in undertaking and managing the quality of specialist reports. We are committed to meeting all deadlines and are responsive to issues that may impact on time frames.

CF Social Work offer a complete range of Independent Social Work Assessment Services:

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