Effective multi-agency partnerships : putting every child matters into practice
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Effective multi-agency partnerships : putting every child matters into practice
Sage, 2009
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
With downloadable electronic resources
Offering practical advice and guidance on how to establish and maintain effective multi-agency partnership working in your setting, this book will tell you how to meet the Every Child Matters outcomes for children and young people.
It clarifies the skills and knowledge required in order to form productive partnerships, and shows you how to set up and maintain good collaborative practice.
The following are provided:
- useful checklists;
- examples of best practice in multi-agency working;
- a range of activities to support team building;
- reflective questions, to facilitate training and improvement;
- practical tools for evaluating the impact of multi-agency working;
- photocopiable materials to use with each chapter of the book.
It is an invaluable resource for leaders and managers in any early years setting, Children's Centre, primary, secondary or special school or Pupil Referral Unit, and will support anyone responsible for coordinating and managing multi-agency partnership working.
Lecturers in higher education responsible for training members of the children's workforce will value this book, as well as Local Authority officers and Workforce Remodelling Advisers.
Table of Contents
The Origin, Concept and Principles of Multi-Agency Partnership Working
The Benefits and Challenges of Collaborative Multi-Agency Working
How to Operate and Manage Productive Multi-Agency Partnership Working
Developing Effective Team Around the Child Partnership Working
The Features of Good Practice in Multi-Agency Partnership Working
Evaluating the Impact and Outcomes of Multi-Agency Partnership Working
Downloadable Material Contents
Chapter 1
Figure 1.2 Checklist for developing effective multi-agency partnership working
Table 1.3 Joint inter-professional visioning and development activity
Table 1.4 Common core of skills and knowledge for multi-agency working
Table 1.6 Professional Standards for Teachers and multi-professional knowledge
Table 1.7 National Occupational Standards for Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools - Working with Colleagues
Chapter 2
Figure 2.1 SWOT analysis for multi-agency partnership working
Figure 2.2 Force field analysis framework for multi-agency partnership working
Figure 2.3 Diamond ranking template
Figure 2.4 Checklist for building the multi-agency team
Table 2.1 Benefits practitioners bring to multi-agency team working
Table 2.2 Nine diamonds inter-professional multi-agency activity
Table 2.3 Personal profile for multi-agency practitioners
Table 2.4 External service/agency information sheet
Chapter 3
Figure 3.1 Checklist for operating a multi-agency tam in an educational setting
Figure 3.2 Checklist for managing change for multi-agency collaboration
Task 1: Changing practice
Task 2: What helps to effect change?
Task 3: Managing change in the multi-agency team
Table 3.4 Multi-agency benchmark self-assessment
Figure 3.5 Model Partnership Commitment Agreement
Table 3.5 Skills and Knowledge Audit for multi-agency partnership working
Table 3.6 Collaborative working survey
Chapter 4
Figure 4.1 Team around the Child pupil-friendly plan
Figure 4.2 Team around the Child Questionnaire
Figure 4.4 Checklist for confidentiality and information sharing
TAC Development Task (p.75)
Chapter 5
Table 5.1 Summary of effective multi-agency practice strategies
Group Practical Task (p.82)
Table 5.2a Template for sharing good practice in multi-agency working
Table5.2b Multi-agency good practice template
Chapter 6
Table 6.1 Every Child Matters Outcomes
Table 6.2 National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services
Table 6.4 Mapping and evaluating the impact of multi-agency provision
Table 6.5 Evaluating the five ECM outcomes in a children's centre
Table 6.6 Evaluating partnership working in a children's centre
Table 6.7 Exemplar of an extended school evaluation profile on external partner agencies collaborative working
Figure 6.5Checklist for monitoring and evaluating multi-agency provision
Table 6.8 Evaluating the effectiveness of a multi-agency partnership
Table 6.9 Evaluating multi-agency partnership commitment and contributions
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