Integrated And Collaborative Working Within Childhood Practice

The Children and Young Peoples Board in Birmingham comprises of different partner agencies and organisations that each have a duty to cooperate under the Children’s Act 2004 in strategic planning, service developments and consideration of emerging issues around children and young people. Partner agencies include:

The sooner any issues or concerns are raised the sooner the child or young person can be monitored and help or assistance given.

The report made 108 ‘sweeping recommendations’ (Laming, 2003) about modifications that were needed in the child protection system as a response to the errors made by professionals who had accountability for Victoria’s care. These involved the creation of a children and families board, a children’s commissioner, new local authorities management boards and the creation of a national children’s database. The thrust of the report was to address the integration of children’s services, bringing the relevant sections of the professional sector together to improve co-ordination and communication as that would directly lead to effective collaboration.

The children act 1989 has influenced some settings by bringing together several sets of guidance and provided the foundation for many of the standards practitioners sustain and maintain when working with children. The act requires that settings work together in the best interests of the child and form partnerships with parents or carers. It requires settings to have appropriate adult to child ratios and policies and procedures on child protection. This act has had an influence in all areas of practice from planning a curriculum and record keeping. The every child matters framework has

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.

The importance of interagency working in the safeguarding and protection of children in the UK

CU2940] Work in Partnership in Health and Social Care or Children and Young People’s Settings

Working with multi agencies it is very important when a child is retiring back into a home environment.Practitioners could develop a relationship with the new family that the child will be joining and this will help the parents to co-operate with the social workers and all the other agencies that are involved. Positive relationships with the parents are very important but it is also vital that the practitioners have a relationship with other agencies as well. Practitioners can then work together with other agencies when appropriate to make sure that the interests are still child centred. It is also important for practitioners to work with all agencies involved so then the practitioner will now everything that is happening with the child and

Abstract Whilst agencies in many sectors have been encouraged to work together to better meet the needs of service users, multi-agency working is now a central feature of government policy. In relation to children’s services, the National Service

The reflective account reviews my role within ‘the Stubbs family case’. I will be reviewing my groups actions, thoughts and feelings which supported our understanding on how we perform. Also I will evaluate the group motivation and strategies we used to achieve our end goal. Additionally, I will demonstrate the links between the practitioner’s role within the family case and the impact on integrated working (CWDC 2010). The Family case focuses on integrated working. Reason being, for the situation to be resolved a variety of practitioners need to be involved. Integrated working involved working with children and young people ensuring lives are improved. Integrated working works with the framework ‘Every Child Matters’. Furthermore, the

Partnership is all about communication and shared experiences. There are many indigenous resources to help Early Childhood services such as SNAICC and IPSU, the NSW Aboriginal Child, Youth and Family Strategy, Early Childhood Australia, ACECQA, these can help with information and resources and professional development. These services can help Early Childhood services connect with the local community to develop partnerships and goals.

Partnership working is when different services and professionals work together with other teams of people to meet the needs of children, young people and their families. It brings together professionals to contribute their own specialist knowledge and skills. This way holistic approach to childcare is achieved as featured in Every Child Matters Framework. Below are some benefits of effective partnership:

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.

In this essay I will be discussing what is partnership, what the key issues are and the relevance of the key issues relating to partnership,I will underpin knowledge and relevant theories and frameworks that enable us to understand the key issues in partnership, I will explain the relevant values and principles which underpin partnership, discuss the relevance of a recognised theory or philosophical approach that contributes to partnership, I shall analyse the provision of equality, diversity and inclusive practise can be ensured in relation to partnership, evaluate the evidence I collect which support the beliefs that the key issues identified are relevant to working with children and young people, the impact of the recognised theory or philosophical approach on practice in the areas of work covered by partnership and I will then conclude by reflecting on and explaining the professional skills required to practice effectively in the areas of work covered by partnership

When we work with children, our career is likely to involve close working with other agencies. Multi-agency working is an effective way of supporting children and families with additional needs. Multi-agency working brings together practitioners from different areas and professions within the workforce to provide integrated support to children and their families, for example a ‘team around the child’. It is an effective way of supporting children with additional needs and helping to secure real improvements in their life outcomes the way different professionals work together in the early years to promote health and safety. You must evaluate the various strategies that are used as well as the effectiveness of the health and safety policies and procedures. This means to work hand in hand with different organisations, professional, colleagues, parent and specialist whereby information sharing is being communicated to each other in order to communicate assessment intervention, a follow-up and that communication should be two ways. This can be classed as different organisation working together to safeguard children and young persons and most of these organisations are funded bodies and businesses .This also means that we need to be established and abide with all the guidelines and to work within the law especially when it regards with children and young person. Common barriers for integrated working and multi- agency working are not everyone will agree on things and different