Working Together For The Benefit of Children and Young People
Multi agency working is important because it brings together practitioners from different areas of work to provide an integrated way of working to support children and their families etc. This ensures that those children and young people who need additional support have the right professionals to support and help them. Integrated working is important as its main purpose is to focus on encouraging and allowing professionals to work together to deliver positive outcomes. Integrated allows things such as early intervention which means that agencies are able to intervene early into a situation before it worsens and hinders the development of a child or young person. Practitioners can undertake an initial assessment of a child’s needs and act on it.
Common*barriers*for*integrated*working*and multi- agency*working*are that not all the people will agree. Also those people may have different methods and ways of working and may not necessarily agree with the ones that are being used. Some people may not be used to sharing their ideas and knowledge. However if these barriers need to be overcome then everyone will have to respect views and ideas of others and also respect and value their knowledge in order to better the multi agencies working together.
Referrals are made to give additional support to those children and young people who need it. This will help the children and young people to gain better possible outcomes which will further better their development.
In my setting, if I notice that the child is having problem in certain things, I will mention it to the class teacher. She will then discuss this with the administrator and parent will be informed and asked for permission for a referral to professional agencies. If the parents/ carers have agreed, the administrator will then contact the agencies, such as the school nurse and then the school nurse will contact agencies such as hospitals, dentist etc.
The external agencies that my setting works with are:
OFSTED: Inspect provision of care in the setting. Their purpose is to ensure that all staff are up to date with all training i.e. First aid, that the setting is providing a healthy and safe environment.
Police. If a problem occurs such as a child goes missing, my setting will inform the police and then they will help in finding the child.
NHS services: They provide up to date information on all illnesses, medical outbreaks etc.
The Common Assessment is an assessment of a child or a young person that provides an opportunity to gain a better initial understanding of the child’s or young person’s needs.
The Assessment Framework includes:
Helps to identify the child’s need.
Provide structure for recording information.
Can support referrals to other services.
Provides a common form of assessment.
Reduces duplication for practitioners.
Reduces multiple assessment for children and families.
Can be shared with consent.
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