Multi agency working Multi agency working is an effective way of supporting children and families with additional needs. It brings together practitioners and professionals from different sectors to provide an integrated way of working to support children, young people and families. 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: ▪ Birmingham Children’s Safeguarding Board ▪ Education Representatives ▪ Birmingham City Council Representatives ▪ NHS West …show more content…
Getting each practitioner to agree on the right course of action to take whilst all having different budgets creates another problem. Staffing can be considered a barrier to multi agency working because of recruitment problems, finding the right professionals dedicated and committed to the aims and outcomes and finding someone with enough understanding about multi agencies could be difficult. Hanging over these barriers is the subject of time. While these problems are occurring, and with insufficient time allocated to multi agency working activities, it could be likely that decisions are rushed or certain aims and outcomes not met. • Relationship and roles Issues concerning working relationships between professionals could be damaging to the multi agency working process. Professionals should be committed and develop mutual respect and trusting relationship with participants involved. Also the lack of clarity over roles and responsibilities could lead to a lack of leadership. Without leadership and someone to oversee and reason problems such as who to report to and a lack of support may arise. Also the confusion over responsibilities may cause people to make assumptions like “someone else will do it” leading to delays in the process. Multi agency working is a child centred approach and deemed to work well providing the best support to children, young people and families. It provides more benefits because
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
1.Understand the principles of inter-professional working within health and social care or children and young people’s setting.
A Corporate parent will recognise that meeting the diverse needs of children and young people will require cooperation between the relevant social authority and other organisations, such as health,
Integrated working is achieved through effective collaboration and co-ordination across all services and sectors including voluntary who work with children, young people and their families. These sectors could be housing, police, health, child-minders, community groups or early year’s workers. The above services are a fundamental role for both children, families and carers who may need the support of these agencies .Multi- agency Collaboration is crucial in partnership working, to support better outcomes for children and their families. Integrated working brings many benefits to delivering a more improved service by:
A successful approach requires multi-agency collaboration and recognition of child wellbeing at the heart of the organisation.
Ensuring children and young people’s safety and welfare in the work setting is an essential part of safeguarding. While children are at school, practitioners act in ‘loco parentis’ while their parents are away. As part of their legal and professional obligations, practitioners hold positions of trust and a duty of care to the children in their school, and therefore should always act in their best interests and ensure their safety – the welfare of the child is paramount (Children Act 1989). The Children Act 2004 came in with the Every Child Matters (ECM) guidelines and greatly impacted the way schools look at the care and welfare of pupils. Children and young people should be helped to learn and thrive and be given the opportunity to
Explain the roles and responsibilities of two members of the children’s workforce in relation to looked after children and young people.
I will be evaluating the role of multi-agency working, its strengths and weaknesses and how it is used to reduce the risk of abuse imposed on adults; I will also be referring to legal frameworks, regulations, working strategies and procedures.
Working within this approach can also avoid confusion between practitioners or provision being duplicated or missed out and parents being asked the same questions over and over which could get irritating for the parents. Sharing information gives an overall better service provided. The SEN code of practice 2001 stresses the importance of working within a multi-agency team ‘All agencies should recognize the need for effective collaboration of services involved with the child and with parents. Consultative responsibilities and effective communication systems and management and practitioner levels should be clearly identified.’ (Special Educational Needs Code of Practice 2001 pg. 70)
Professionals within different agencies and organisations all have specific responsibilities regarding safeguarding of children and young people. The concept of integrated working involves everyone who works with children and young people, and is a central part of Working Together to Safeguard Children (2013).
This essay will attempt to critically examine the importance of interagency working in the safeguarding and protection of children and young people in the UK. It will consider both the challenges and how these have or might be overcome. It will look at key government legislation in respect to child welfare and pay particular note to high profile cased where interagency working has appeared to be less that effective in maintaining safeguards for vulnerable children, in particular. Consideration will be given to models of working that support interagency collaboration and of how some of these models may have been implemented in current
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.
Multi agency and integrated working supports early intervention and maintains focus on the child/young person because more than one agency is working with the family. It avoids duplication because the agency best equipped deals with the areas there are able too.
tion within health and social care or children and young people 's settings (O16)107 Facilitate the development of effective group practice in health and social care or children and young people 's settings (O20c) 110 Facilitate coaching and mentoring in health and social care or children and young people 's settings (O30c)113 Manage induction processes for health and social care or children and young people 's settings (O35)116 Facilitate change in health and social care or children and young people 's setting (O40) 120 Manage inter-professional working arrangements in a health and social care or children and young people 's setting (O41) 125 Manage finance in health and social care or children and young people 's setting (O42) 129 Manage quality in health and social care or children and young people 's setting (O43) 131 Develop and evaluate operational plans for own area of responsibility (B1) 133 Manage physical resources (E8) Understand partnership working (M2a) Understand how to manage a team (LM1a) 135 137 138
Many times, you find that you need an agency to collaborate and support each other’s common interest. In a way like that of an overwhelmed Family member would contract a home care agency to take care of an ill family member. In chapter seven an article written by Marvin Firestone “Agency” he explains some aspects and responsibilities that both have toward each other.