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3.4. Explain how effective multi-agency working operates within early years provision and benefits children and carers.
The Early Years Foundation Stage framework document makes it clear that multi-agency working is a key part of the framework that is designed to deliver improved outcomes for all children in their learning and development.
Multi-agency working brings together practitioners from different sectors and professions to provide an integrated way of working to support children, young people and families. It is a way of working that ensures children and young people who need additional support have exactly the right professionals needed to support them.
Multi-agency working operates within the early years in many ways. For example; Multi-agency panel - Practitioners remain employed by their home agency and they meet as a panel or network on a regular basis to discuss children with additional needs who would benefit from multi-agency input.
In some panels, case work is carried out by panel members. Other panels take a more strategic role, employing key workers to lead on case work. An example of this type of working arrangement is a Youth Inclusion and Support Panel.
Multi-agency team is a more formal arrangement than a panel, with practitioners assigned or recruited into the team. The team has a leader and they work to a common purpose and common goals.
Practitioners may maintain links with their home agencies through supervision and training with an opportunity to take part in work with different services and at a range of levels – not just with individual children and young people, but also small groups, family and whole school work. Examples include Behaviour & Education Support Teams and Youth Offending Teams.
Integrated service is a range of separate services that share a common location, and work together. Has a management structure that facilitates integrated working. Usually delivered from school/early years settings. Examples include Sure Start children’s centres and extended schools that offer access to a range of integrated, multi-agency services.
Multi-agency working provides benefits for children, young people and families because they receive appropriate support in the most professional
way.
The benefits of this include:
early identification and intervention
easier or quicker access to services or expertise
improved achievement in education and better engagement in education
better support for parents children, young people and family’s needs addressed more appropriately
better quality services
reduced need for more specialist services
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