Partnership Working
How does partnership working benefit children and young people with disabilities?
Partnership working can be described as “A relationship between individuals or groups that is characterized by mutual cooperation and responsibility, as for the achievement of a specified goal” Author unknown, (2016).
I have chosen to look at this topic as i am interested in ways of how partnership working can benefit children and young people with disabilities.
When professionals work in partnership it may help and benefit children and young people who live with a disability. An example of this would be if a child lived with a physical disability then a health visitor and a practitioner (disability nurse) could work in partnership in order to ensure that …show more content…
e.g if a child has not started to walk yet and they became ill they may take longer to learn how to walk as they won’t be able to practice and attempt to walk due to being too ill. This will differ their development from the expected pattern as they will develop a lot slower than others. If a child is physically limited through disability this could prevent them from reaching certain physical milestones, such as being able to walk, run, or jump when other children at their age can do so. So there are many reasons/explanations of why children and young people’s development may not follow the expected pattern of development.
Practitioners and multi-agency services must work together to ensure that the help benefit the child who has a disability as much as they can, also they must work together to try and aim for and encourage the child to meet their developmental milestones (if …show more content…
They will combine their skills and knowledge and work together in the aim of creating the best outcome for the child.
Professionals and the child’s parents can work together. This can be very beneficial to the child as the parent can provide information to the professional and they can share information and decide upon what actions to take. The parent can provide information about the child such as their likes/dislikes, their behaviour and many other information that only the parents may know. By doing this the professional will have a better understanding of the child and will be able to get to know the child better which will help when they are working with the child.
Multi agencies should make the child the main focus. They should communicate regularly and share as much relevant information with each other as possible. They should support early intervention as this can sometimes prevent the problem from occurring in the first place. They should also work in an inclusive way so that the child’s need are met in all parts/areas of the
Partnership working can be described as “A relationship between individuals or groups that is characterized by mutual cooperation and responsibility, as for the achievement of a specified goal” Author unknown, (2016).
I have chosen to look at this topic as i am interested in ways of how partnership working can benefit children and young people with disabilities.
When professionals work in partnership it may help and benefit children and young people who live with a disability. An example of this would be if a child lived with a physical disability then a health visitor and a practitioner (disability nurse) could work in partnership in order to ensure that …show more content…
e.g if a child has not started to walk yet and they became ill they may take longer to learn how to walk as they won’t be able to practice and attempt to walk due to being too ill. This will differ their development from the expected pattern as they will develop a lot slower than others. If a child is physically limited through disability this could prevent them from reaching certain physical milestones, such as being able to walk, run, or jump when other children at their age can do so. So there are many reasons/explanations of why children and young people’s development may not follow the expected pattern of development.
Practitioners and multi-agency services must work together to ensure that the help benefit the child who has a disability as much as they can, also they must work together to try and aim for and encourage the child to meet their developmental milestones (if …show more content…
They will combine their skills and knowledge and work together in the aim of creating the best outcome for the child.
Professionals and the child’s parents can work together. This can be very beneficial to the child as the parent can provide information to the professional and they can share information and decide upon what actions to take. The parent can provide information about the child such as their likes/dislikes, their behaviour and many other information that only the parents may know. By doing this the professional will have a better understanding of the child and will be able to get to know the child better which will help when they are working with the child.
Multi agencies should make the child the main focus. They should communicate regularly and share as much relevant information with each other as possible. They should support early intervention as this can sometimes prevent the problem from occurring in the first place. They should also work in an inclusive way so that the child’s need are met in all parts/areas of the