What is integrated and collaborative working and why is it so important in childhood practice? The numerous well-publicised child protection cases such as Baby P and Daniel Pelka have emphasized just what can happen when services fail to work collaboratively and this shows why integrated working and collaborative practice is vital and imperative. The outcomes of fatal accident enquiries‚ like the cases of the children mentioned‚ continually conclude that a lack of communication between agencies with
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Community 13(2)‚ 155–163 Multi-agency working in services for disabled children: what impact does it have Blackwell Publishing‚ Ltd. on professionals? David Abbott LLB Hons‚ M.Phil‚ M Soc Sc‚ Ruth Townsley BA Hons‚ PhD and Debby Watson BA Hons‚ MSc‚ CQSW Norah Fry Research Centre‚ University of Bristol‚ UK Correspondence David Abbott Norah Fry Research Centre University of Bristol 3 Priory Road‚ Bristol‚ BS8 1TX E-mail: d.abbott@bristol.ac.uk Abstract Whilst agencies in many sectors have
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Multi-agency Working The aim of the essay is to show an understanding of the value of effective multi-agency working in supporting children and families. It is mentioned in the department of education (2012) that multi – agency working is a way of bringing together practioners from different professions to give additional support to children and family who need it. Because children and their family needs can be very different it is ensured that right professionals are involved in the service provided
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Integrated working is when everyone including practitioners and professionals come together in supporting young children effectively‚ putting the child at the centre to meet their needs and improve their lives and wellbeing. Importance of integrated working 1 Integrated working helps promote child developments and other life skill. 2 Helps promote effective communication among professionals when it involves getting a lasting solution to problems. 3 It motivates specialisation of professions while
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In your role as early years practitioner you will know that teamwork can sometimes be challenging. Multi-agency practice takes place where children spend most of their time and feel familiar – this could be a children’s centre‚ school‚ village hall‚ health centre etc. But it is important to understand what some of the barriers to effective working might be: • Lack of understanding of roles and responsibilities - Where people have been clearly trained for a role they may find it odd to be managed
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Plan Experience and leadership are important in developing and executing a multi-agency operational plan. This involves giving the Detectives‚ Officers‚ and Agents from all of the agencies assignments. It also involves guiding and directing the Detectives‚ Officers‚ and Agents at the scene to achieve the mission’s goal and to assure the safety of the officers. I have conducted and prepared 10 successful multi-agency operational plans. Planning Steps To develop an effective operational plan
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Unit 013: Understand partnership working in Services for children and young people Task A 1. It is important to children that we work in partnership with parents/colleagues/other professionals so the children in the setting receive the best quality of care offered to ensure theirs needs are met. Good relationships between parent/careers colleagues and children are enormously important in the early year’s settings as they benefit everyone especially the children. Good relationships create
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co-ordinated with the school and the therapist to help the child cope as much as possible. All the agencies involved with the Childs care and education would have to make sure that everyone had all the relevant information about the child and about the Childs care plan‚ so that all agencies can tie in with each other to give the child the best overall care. By keeping each other informed and working together the child should be able to manage and cope with everything a lot
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features of effective partnership working are to ensure there is good communication between all parties that ensure a high standard of care is delivered to the individual involved at all times. It ensures each party is covering all area’s and that all needs are met and that all partys have a good knowledge of who is delivering what to the individual and the contacts they have if other issues may arise and the access they have to these. 1.2 Partnership working with colleaugues is extremely important
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Working in a Multi-disciplinary Team MULTI-DISCIPLINARY TEAMS – WHAT ARE THEY AND HOW DO THEY WORK? Like families‚ multi-disciplinary teams can work brilliantly together – or be totally dysfunctional. It’s hardly surprising that when you assemble a diverse group of people with varied skills into a team‚ things don’t always go smoothly. (Community Care.co.uk‚ 2005) Care provided through a Multi-Disciplinary Team is “Person Centred” – to ensure the right care is provided in the right place
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