Working Together for the Benefit of Children and Young People

For multi agency working to be successful, good communication from all the organisations and care providers is very important with understanding of the responsibilities for each agency. It also requires all agencies involved to work to a satisfactory level.

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.

1.Understand the principles of inter-professional working within health and social care or children and young people’s setting.

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.

As child practitioners we must work on our skills in communicating with children because the way we communicate with them is important not only for their communication and language development, but also the development of our relationship with them. Young children often aren't able to express their thoughts and feelings in words, or express them poorly. Because of this, it's important that child practitioners can listen carefully and help children to learn how to express themselves and also provide what they need.

Explain how current and relevant legislation and policy affects work with children and young people.

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

Multi-Agency working is carried out by health professionals from different sectors and professions such as nurses, social workers and mid wives working together to achieve a common goal. Multi-Agency working ensures additional support is provided for service users and that they have the correct professionals working to support

This enables different services and professionals to join together to prevent problems happening. It is used to support children, young people and families to help secure improved outcomes.

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

Clear and effective communication between partners is required so that employers will have a clear understanding of what the goals of the organization are. Clear speech is important so the other person/people can understand you are saying.

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.

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

A couple weeks ago I spoke with a speech language pathologist who currently works at a pediatric clinic in the Iowa City area. This clinic also employs occupational therapists, physical therapists, and child psychologist. She said that every week they have team meetings with the entire staff to problem solve and share ideas with each other.