SCARF Resources
- SCARF Brochure (1.5Mb)
A downloadable and printable brochure for SCARF (A Child and Family Case Management System)
- Guide to Producing and Printing SCARF Tools
To ensure that the Supporting Children and Responding to Families Tools are produced in a standard format within offices, across agencies and throughout Australia, all SCARF tools must be printed and collated in a consistent manner.
Consistency in production of printed SCARF Materials is part of the UK Department of Education and Skills licence requirements and must be adhered to by all agencies using the SCARF Materials under End User Agreement with SCARF Australia. The Guide to producing SCARF tools provides a colour coded reference point for each SCARF form.
- Guide to Implementing SCARF
The impact of implementing SCARF will depend on the agency’s practices and policies prior to using SCARF. The context in which an agency operates will also affect SCARF implementation. A small agency in a rural setting for example will have different challenges to a state-wide government agency. It is useful to develop an implementation management plan to suit your particular service or agency.
This implementation guide has been developed from the actual experience SCARF Australia has had in implementing SCARF in a range of family support services since 2001. Other services’ have reported their own experiences to SCARF Australia, and this practice wisdom has been incorporated into the material presented.
- Getting Started Outline
A brief outline regarding how services can access and begin to use SCARF.
The Supporting Children And Responding to Families (SCARF) case management system is a licensed product of the UK Department of Education and Skills, available from SCARF Australia. To use SCARF, an agency needs to complete an End User Agreement with SCARF Australia.
On completion of the End User Agreement, your agency will be issued with a User ID and Password to access SCARF materials from the SCARF web site i.e. SCARF electronic templates. All workers using SCARF will need to know the User ID and Password and must respect it’s confidential nature.
- Guide to Evaluating SCARF
Implementing SCARF requires careful planning and a sustained effort by workers and managers over a considerable period of time. Just how beneficial SCARF proves to be to the service will be of interest to everyone concerned, from senior managers to clients themselves. Examining the difference SCARF makes to outcomes for clients at what sort of cost (effort) will be extremely useful to longer term planning.
It is important to think about how to evaluate SCARF at the outset of implementation so that "Before and After" measures can be examined as well as progress over time as SCARF is fully integrated into the functioning of the service.
This guide is intended to offer some ideas about evaluation methods and includes sample evaluation tools.