Understand partnership working
Research the concepts of ‘lead professional’ and ‘key worker or person’. How do these roles improve the effectiveness of partnership working?
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Building partnerships between parents and practitioners' from Aistear
- ‘Working in partnership with parents: Policy and procedure' from Wigan Council
- 'Working with parents in partnership', written by Hilton Davis and Lorraine Meltzer, produced by Early Support
- 'Changing perceptions' by Mark Brown and Olivia Trimbee, produced by Early Support
- Laser Learning reading text ‘Working with others in early years settings and overcoming challenges to partnership working’
- ‘Working in partnership’ by Early Childhood Forum
- ‘Partnership working’ by Education Scotland
- ‘Working with outside agencies: Specialists on hand’ by Nursery World
- ‘Chapter 4: Barriers to partnership working’ by the Joint Improvement Team
- ‘Working together to safeguard children’ by the HM Government
- ‘Special educational needs and disability code of practice: 0 to 25 years’ by the Department for Education
- ‘Section 8: Working with other professionals and other sources of support and information’ by the Council for Disabled Children
- ‘Information sharing: Advice for practitioners providing safeguarding services to children, young people, parents and carers’
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson’s first presentation on ‘Exploring partnerships’.
- Click to launch this lesson’s second presentation on ‘Partnership pointers’.
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click to read ‘Multi-agency working: Part one - Crossing barriers’ on the Nursery World website. This website requires a subscription in order to access this series on multi-agency working. Subscription is at your own discretion.
- Read 'Guidance on Partnership Working Between Allied Health Professions and Education', produced by the Scottish government.
- The ‘Department for Education – Publications’ section of the Gov.uk website is a good place to check for any updates to legislation, statutory, and non-statutory advice that may affect partnership working. Click on the icon to the left to access this resource.
- ‘Multi agency working and information sharing project: Final report’ by the UK Home Office. Click on the icon to the left to access this report.
- Click on the icon to the left to read the Research Brief ‘An Exploration of Different Models of Multi-Agency Partnerships in Key Worker Services for Disabled Children: Effectiveness and Costs. This can be downloaded from the DfE website at:
- Look at published official guidance specific to your sector and note how partnership working is discussed and implemented.
- Research the concepts of ‘lead professional’ and ‘key worker or person’. How do these roles improve the effectiveness of partnership working?
- Think And Challenge
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