Working Together for the Benefit of Children and Young People
CU1523 Working together for the benefit of children and young people
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Multi-agency working aims to support children and young people earlier to ensure they meet the five Every Child Matters (ECM) outcomes. The five outcomes of ECM state that we need to be working together to achieve the best possible outcomes for children in our setting. These outcomes are:
• Be healthy
• Stay safe
• Enjoy and achieve
• Make a positive contribution
• Achieve economic well being
Multi-agency working brings together practitioners from different sectors and professions to provide an integrated way of working to support children, young people and families. It is a way of working that ensures children and young people who need additional support have exactly the right professionals needed to support them. The early year’s foundation stage (EYFS) is clear that different professionals working together will help to improve outcomes for children in both their learning and development. It could be that records are shared or that observations of a child by a professional, such as a speech and language therapist or by a practitioner in the setting, may contribute to further assessment.
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There are many outcomes for children that will be positive if the professionals working with the children and families can share and agree upon the way they might assess, plan and implement for the child. Both the children and their parents can be involved in any plans to ensure that the child can achieve their potential.
Anyone working together be that a team of two or larger will know that different opinion/ideas is known to be beneficial,
For example: If a child has speech problems - it may be more than just mechanical, it may be that a child is developmentally behind, so for the child a speech and language therapist (SALT) may be insufficient, it could be their environment - what is their home life like? Are their needs being met? Are they hearing social speech in the home? Do they have
1.1
Multi-agency working aims to support children and young people earlier to ensure they meet the five Every Child Matters (ECM) outcomes. The five outcomes of ECM state that we need to be working together to achieve the best possible outcomes for children in our setting. These outcomes are:
• Be healthy
• Stay safe
• Enjoy and achieve
• Make a positive contribution
• Achieve economic well being
Multi-agency working brings together practitioners from different sectors and professions to provide an integrated way of working to support children, young people and families. It is a way of working that ensures children and young people who need additional support have exactly the right professionals needed to support them. The early year’s foundation stage (EYFS) is clear that different professionals working together will help to improve outcomes for children in both their learning and development. It could be that records are shared or that observations of a child by a professional, such as a speech and language therapist or by a practitioner in the setting, may contribute to further assessment.
1.2
There are many outcomes for children that will be positive if the professionals working with the children and families can share and agree upon the way they might assess, plan and implement for the child. Both the children and their parents can be involved in any plans to ensure that the child can achieve their potential.
Anyone working together be that a team of two or larger will know that different opinion/ideas is known to be beneficial,
For example: If a child has speech problems - it may be more than just mechanical, it may be that a child is developmentally behind, so for the child a speech and language therapist (SALT) may be insufficient, it could be their environment - what is their home life like? Are their needs being met? Are they hearing social speech in the home? Do they have