Who should I invite to CAF meeting?

[smugtandemfeeder]

Me again

CAF meeting has been scheduled for mid august. HV wants to know who I want to invite.

Options are

1. Pre-school SENco
   
2. Sure start play worker
   
3. Social worker (who thinks we are anxiety ridden label chasing parents but has signed us off so presume dont NEED to invite them)
   
4. Pead (who is basically a GP and has sent us on a parenting course.)
   
5. Portage (we are in the holding group for portage, just attending meet and play sessions so far)
   
6. Ed Psych (says they wont see DS until he goes to assessment centre)
   

I dont really fancy having the paed or the social worker there.

Should we invite unhelpful people or exclude them?

What is my objective at the CAF meeting? (thinking aloud...)

[alowVera]

Hi, just coming in at the end, re-portage waiting list, have you directly phoned portage? I did (after 3 referrals and being turned down once) and pretty much begged them to get involved before I got SS involved. They'd called me back within a week and are now getting involved.

[smugtandemfeeder]

The portage waiting group is run by the portage workers so they get to assess DSs needs in the group setting. DS has mostly hidden his behaviours although last time he refused to speak to them and kept trying to hit them. They said they had seen a different side to him. But it was so minor we would have no way of getting them to fast track him. I have sent them video evidence of behaviours at home and asked for support with this but so far no reply.