Effective assessment is a continuous process that involves gathering and analysing information over time, across contexts, with a child/young person and their parents/carers, and potentially with practitioners from other services.
An accurate and up-to-date single or multiagency chronology is an important aspect of ongoing assessment.
You should refer to the Single and Multi-Agency Child Chronology Good Practice Guidance to help initiate and maintain a chronology of key information about significant events. It will support you, either as the named person or as the Team Around the Child, when there is more than one service involved.
