Just wondering if anyone has had any experience of obtaining CE Certification for products they have manufactured themselves?

Have you 'self-assessed' or paid an agency to do the legwork?

I have developed a product for sale which could be regarded as a 'Toy' under the regulations as it will be used by children under the age of 14, so need to know how to go about getting CE registration (with regards to the product and its packaging) and applying CE marking to the product/packaging.

Any help would be appreciated as reading through all these EU regulations is doing my head in!