Multiagency working in the early years: confidence.
Early intervention teams have been set up in England to work with children with additional needs from birth to the end of early years foundation stage. The early year’s intervention team will be part of the multi-agency panel enabling referrals to be made between settings.
The current paper proposes a model within which to view and further explore multi-agency collaboration, and which may be useful to facilitate more effective multi-agency working. The model focuses on the factors influencing the success of multi-agency collaboration, and allows for variations in regulation and working practices in the different aspects of children’s services.
Accessing multi agency support in the early years might need to happen for a number of reasons. As a practitioners in an early years setting you may at some point work with multi agencies. Many professionals from a variety of backgrounds may become involved in a child’s life at any point.
Multi Agency Working. The importance of multi agency and integrated working As an early year setting we are required to help the children achieve the five outcomes of the UK government they include stay safe, enjoy and achieve, be healthy, make a positive contribution and achieve economic well being. We do everything we can to follow these outcomes but sometimes we need to contact and utilise.
The origin of multi-agency partnership working Multi-agency partnership working is not a new development. As early as the mid-nineteenth century, health and social services were working together to endeavour to reduce poverty in England. It wasn’t really until the 1980s, during the Thatcher government years, that the foundations of multi.
Early years team work and leadership.. The commitment to working together in a multi-agency context stems from the belief that children’s needs cannot be boxed into health, social or educational compartments and should be viewed holistically. However, this presents a major challenge to traditional ways of working not only between those.
Contents. Principles of Multi Agency Working; Context; Multi Agency Plans; Multi Agency Reviews; 1. Principles of Multi Agency Working. The procedures in this manual are intended to provide guidance to practitioners at all levels, working in the statutory, voluntary and independent sectors, who work with and provide services to children and their families.