Effective Multi-Agency Partnerships: Putting Every Child Matters into Practice

by Rita Cheminais

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848601390
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/17/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 11.60(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	3 Months

About the Author

Rita Cheminais is a leading expert in the fields of special educational needs (SEN), nationally and internationally. With a background as a teacher, a SEN Co-ordinator, an OFSTED inspector, a General, Senior and Principal Adviser in SEN and Inclusion, as a School Improvement Officer, and as a Freelance Education Consultant, Rita has thirty seven years of practical experience.

She is a prolific writer and respected author of journal articles and books in the areas of SEN, inclusion, Every Child Matters, Pupil Voice, and Partnership Working with Families and Multi-agencies. Rita speaks regularly at national conferences on these topics.

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