Explain Why It Is Important To Ensure That Collaborative Working Within Early Childhood Practice

Multi-agency working is beneficial for all service users such as children, young people, adults and families; this is because Multi-agency working ensures they receive support in the most effective approach, these benefits include: * Faster and more precise

There are many social, economical and cultural factors that impact on the lives of children and young people. In my role as a Young Carer’s Support Worker, I work with a number of families living with the consequences of these factors. Every Child Matters (ECM) aims to improve the outcomes and life chances of every child and young person, therefore, it is important we understand and do all we can to help them achieve the 5 outcomes of the ECM, stay safe, be healthy, enjoy and achieve, make a positive contribution, and, achieve economic well-being.

This helps practitioner’s work together for the welfare of children. It promotes the Every Child Matters outcomes to reinforcing how important it is for all child careers to work together.

When looking at children and young people’s development it is important to recognise and respond to concerns to ensure that the child or young person receives the help and assistance needed.

It has been debated that children and families have received poor service because of the failure of professionals in understanding each other’s roles or working together in a multi-disciplinary

Practitioners have to put the needs of children first because this will help keep children safe and encourages children to be independent. It’s important to show

A successful approach requires multi-agency collaboration and recognition of child wellbeing at the heart of the organisation.

M1- Discuss how policies and procedures help children, young people and their families whilst the child is being looked after.

1. Setting the standards for the learning, development and care, ensuring that every child makes progress and that no child gets left behind. Parents, providers should deliver individualised learning, development and care that enhances the development of the children in their care and gives those children the best possible start in life. Every child should be supported individually to make progress at their own pace and children who need extra support to fulfil their potential should receive special consideration. All providers have an equally important role to play in children’s early years experiences and they have to ensure that the provision they deliver is both appropriate to children’ needs and complementary to the education and care provided in child’s other settings.

Partnership is driven by a desire for collaborative advantage and can offer many positive outcomes, like benefits for staff and services such as less replication between different service providers. It helps them see others point of view and it keeps them from being selfish, it helps young people interact with others to achieve a goal, and it helps them develop socially. It’s important to work in partnership with others so that all agencies can share information and concerns about children and young people in their care, it also helps to keep the children safe and away from harm.

It is really important for the child/young person and their family to ensure all needs of the individual are met. If we didn’t work with other agencies our children/young people and their families would possibly miss out on valuable support and help.

The idea behind the Act is to promote (co-ordination between multiple official entities to improve the overall well-being of children. The 2004 Act also specifically provided for including and affecting disabled children. The Act places a duty on local authorities and their partners (including the police, health service providers and the youth justice system) to co-operate in promoting the wellbeing of children and young people and to make arrangements to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

The Looked After Children Strategic Implementation Group is an example is a programme to improve outcomes for all looked after children and young people in Scotland. In collaboration to this a series of major change programmes like Getting it Right are used

Working in partnership with key professionals will provide good support and advice where needed to help improve the overall development of the children and to help staff that are less experienced in certain areas. As every child develops differently and at different rates working in partnership and listening to a professional that is for a certain area will help with children’s different needs. For example getting recourses off a speech and language therapist will help the child with the specific need to develop in the best way

Research by The Guardian found that only forty per cent of social workers felt that the Every Child Matters framework had made their jobs easier. Seventy two percent acknowledged that it had improved the quality of care for children and seventy four percent said that it improved joint working with other professionals. (Winchester 2009). Therefore the main findings by The Guardian is that more attention is being given to how children are achieving in school and to ensuring they get the help they need, rather than just accepting that children have had difficult experiences, or have been in care thus ensuring that a child doesn't suffer any more disadvantage as a result.