Laser Lessons - Lesson

Work in partnership in health and social care or children and young people’s settings

Click on the video icon to watch this video ‘A balancing act – working in partnership to meet the needs of every child’ produced by Ofsted. Watch ‘Working with a diverse team of strong personalities’ produced by the National College for Teaching and Leadership. Building successful teams is about ensuring different personalities all work together towards a shared outcome or objective.

Table of Contents

Tutorial Video
Reading Materials

‘Working in partnership with parents’ from the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY)
‘Information sharing: Advice for practitioners providing safeguarding services to children, young people, parents and carers’
‘Working in partnership’ by the Early Childhood Forum
‘Effective practice: Parents as partners’ by the Department for Education
‘A guide for working with parents of children with Special Educational Needs or Disabilities (SEND)’ by 4 Children
‘For effective schools, teamwork is not optional’ from Edutopia
‘Effective teaching teams: Facilitators and barriers’ by Katherine Main
‘How to communicate effectively with your colleagues’ on the Uplift Events website
‘Working together to safeguard children: A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children’ by the HM Government
Laser Learning reading text ‘Building relationships with the adults you work with’

Presentation

Click to launch this lesson’s first presentation on ‘Partnership working’.
Click to launch this lesson’s second presentation on ‘Partnership pointers’.
Click to launch this lesson’s third presentation on ‘Managing complaints.

Good Practice Example
Good Practice Example
Interactive Quiz
Evidence Opportunities
Extended Learning

‘Principles for engaging with families’ by the Early Learning Partnership and Parental Engagement Group. Click to read this framework for local authorities and national organisations to evaluate and improve engagement with families.
This article by Dennis Sparks is called ‘Strong teams, strong schools’ and looks at the benefits of good teamwork within a school.
This section of the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) contains a number of videos on how to build an effective team.
Click to read 'Bruce Tuckman: The Forming, Storming, Norming & Performing Team Development Model' from the Culture at Work website.
‘Multi-agency statutory guidance on female genital mutilation’ by the UK Government.
Research the concepts of ‘lead professional’ and ‘key worker or person’. How do these roles improve the effectiveness of partnership working?
‘The Right to Choose: Multi-agency statutory guidance for dealing with forced marriage’ by the UK Government.
‘Prevent duty guidance’ by the UK Government.
‘Channel guidance’ by the UK Government.
‘Keeping children safe in education: Statutory guidance for schools and colleges’ by the UK Government.
Click on the link to read ‘Review of best practice in parental engagement’ produced by the Department for Education.
'Children of single parents’ webpage on the Gingerbread website. Gingerbread offers advice and support for single parents. Click to access some useful resources that could help you understand the challenges single parents face and offer advice and support to those you work with.

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