Information on licensing covers all versions of the CSNAT, including the CSNAT Paediatric.
The tools are protected by copyright, held by the Universities of Cambridge, Manchester and East Anglia. Therefore, a licence is required for their use. The licence is free of charge for health and social care professionals and researchers from non-commercial organisations.
We are not releasing any version of CSNAT for commercial use. For further information contact CSNAT.team@uea.ac.uk
- To obtain a licence for practice, training is required by all those implementing the intervention in practice, both CSNAT-I and CSNAT-I Paediatric.
- Go to the Training section [make this a hyperlink] for details on accessing the online CSNAT-I Training and Implementation Toolkit. The Toolkit has CPD accreditation, access is free of charge and has a simple registration process.
- After completion of training download a PRACTICE USE LICENCE AGREEMENT either for
- using CSNAT-I in practice or
- using CSNAT-I Paediatric in practice
- Please complete all the details requested, including confirmation of training
- The licence requires a signature from your organisation: ensure that the signatory is authorised to act on behalf of the organisation.
- Once completed, email the full licence document, not just the signature page, to gunn.grande@manchester.ac.uk and ge200@cam.ac.uk for approval. Please note your licence is not active until approved.
- Once the licence agreement is in place, you will receive a full set of practice materials for use within your organisation and a copy of the full licence agreement signed by the Universities.
Go to Using CSNAT in a Research Study section to check the type of research licence needed and check analysis procedures.
- No training is required for a R1 licence because the CSNAT/CSNAT Paediatric is being used only to identify domains of unmet support need, no carer support is provided based on the carer’s responses.
- Download a Research-R1 LICENCE AGREEMENT either for
- using or
- using
- Complete details requested including analysis to be undertaken.
- The licence requires a signature from your organisation: ensure that the signatory is authorised to act on behalf of the organisation.
- Once completed, email the full licence document, not just the signature page, to and for approval. Please note your licence is not active until approved.
- Once the licence agreement is in place, you will receive a licensed copy of the research tool to use in your research study and a copy of the full licence agreement signed by the Universities.
- For a R2 licence, training is required because support is provided based on carer responses and the CSNAT/CSNAT Paediatric is therefore being used as part of a practice intervention within a research study.
- Go to the Training section (make this a hyperlink) for details on accessing the online CSNAT-I Training and Implementation Toolkit.
- After completion of training, download a Research-R2 LICENCE AGREEMENT either for
- using or
- using
- Complete all the details requested, including confirmation of training and analysis to be undertaken.
- The licence requires a signature from your organisation: ensure that the signatory is authorised to act on behalf of the organisation.
- Once completed, email the full licence document, not just the signature page, to and for approval. Please note your licence is not active until approved.
- Once the licence agreement is in place, you will receive a full set of materials for use within your research study and a copy of the full licence agreement signed by the Universities.
- If you wish to translate any of the CSNAT tools or materials, first visit the Translation page for more information. There you will be able to access a copy of the appropriate Translation Process to use.
- Download the correct TRANSLATION LICENCE AGREEMENT either
- Complete the details requested.
- The licence will be for one year to enable the translation process to be completed.
- The licence requires a signature from your organisation: ensure that the signatory is authorised to act on behalf of the organisation.
- Once completed, email the full licence document, not just the signature page, to gunn.grande@manchester.ac.uk and ge200@cam.ac.uk for approval. Please note your licence is not active until approved.
- Once the licencing process has been completed you will receive copies of the materials to be translated as appropriate to your use and a copy of the full licence agreement signed by the Universities.
- A licence is required if you request a copy of the CSNAT v3.0 (the tool itself) to include in a systematic review.
- Download a copy of the SR LICENCE AGREEMENT and complete details requested.
- The licence requires a signature from your organisation: ensure that the signatory is authorised to act on behalf of the organisation.
- Once completed, email the full licence document, not just the signature page, to gunn.grande@manchester.ac.uk and ge200@cam.ac.uk for approval. Please note your licence is not active until approved.
- Once the licence agreement is in place, you will receive a licensed copy of the CSNAT (the tool itself) to use in the systematic review and a copy of the full licence agreement signed by the Universities.
- To obtain a licence for using the CSNAT Intervention in a teaching course, training is required by all those involved in teaching the course
- Go to the Training section for details on accessing the online CSNAT-I Training and Implementation Toolkit. The Toolkit has CPD accreditation, access is free of charge and has a simple registration process.
- After completion of training download a TEACHING LICENCE AGREEMENT
- Please complete all the details requested, including confirmation of training
- The licence requires a signature from your organisation: ensure that the signatory is authorised to act on behalf of the organisation.
- Once completed, email the full licence document, not just the signature page, to gunn.grande@manchester.ac.uk and ge200@cam.ac.uk for approval. Please note your licence is not active until approved.
- Once the licence agreement is in place, you will receive a full set of teaching materials for use in your course and a copy of the full licence agreement signed by the Universities.
The CSNAT and the CSNAT Paediatric (hereafter ‘the Tool’) and the licence agreement for their use are available free of charge to non-profit organisations. Agreeing to the terms of the Licence Agreement is required for organisations/research studies wishing to use the Tool
Use of the tool as a Practice intervention or for Research with Intervention (R2) requires training for those who will be using the tool.
Summary of licensing conditions
- Copies of the Tool may only be made for the organisation(s) or research study and for the purpose documented on the licence.
- To maintain its integrity, the Tool is protected by copyright: no changes can be made to its instructions, questions or structure. This means that its wording, response categories, order of questions and copyright statement must remain intact.
- The licence allows you to send the Tool to carers by post or electronically, either as part of the delivery of the CSNAT/CSNAT Paediatric Intervention or as part of your research study and to circulate it electronically within the teams documented on the licence.
- The licence does not give permission to incorporate the Tool and response categories into electronic records for the purpose of recording the contact with the carer. Instead, the Support Plan used with the CSNAT/CSNAT Paediatric Intervention or other descriptive information can be put on an electronic record system to record carers’ individual support needs and any supportive input required.
- For full guidance on what can be recorded and how, download a copy of the Guidance on use of CSNAT-I on e-record systems [make this a hyperlink] for more detailed information on CSNAT-I on electronic record systems. It is an express condition of the licence agreement that licensees follow this guidance.
- Other than the use permitted by the Licence, the Tool must not be reproduced in its entirety in any publication or report or online or otherwise shared or made available to the general public in any form or in any media (this includes posters and PowerPoint slides). No more than four domains/questions may be shown on any presentation. For further information, contact CSNAT.team@uea.ac.uk
- Where the tool is used in a research study, recommendations for its analysis can be found at https://csnat.org/using-csnat-i-in-research/.
- For a research study, should recommendations for CSNAT analysis not be followed, a note needs to be included in any publication or presentation that the analysis undertaken was not recommended by the CSNAT team.
- Copyright notices and acknowledgements must be included on all copies of the Tool.
The following acknowledgement of use of the Tool must be included in any publications relating to its use: ‘The CSNAT/ CSNAT Paediatric is a copyright tool which requires a licence for its use. For details about accessing the CSNAT/ CSNAT-Paediatric and the licensing process, please visit https://csnat.org.’