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SAGE PUBLISHING Effective Multi-Agency Partnerships by Cheminais
With downloadable electronic resourcesOffering 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. The following are provided: - useful checklists; - examples of best practice in multi-agency working;- a range of activities to support team building; - reflective questions, to facilitate training and improvement;- practical tools for evaluating the impact of multi-agency working;- photocopiable materials to use with each chapter of the book.It is an invaluable resource for leaders and managers in any early years setting, Children's Centre, primary, secondary or special school or Pupil Referral Unit, and will support anyone responsible for coordinating and managing multi-agency partnership working. Lecturers in higher education responsible for training members of the children's workforce will value this book, as well as Local Authority officers and Workforce Remodelling Advisers. The Origin, Concept and Principles of Multi-Agency Partnership WorkingThe Benefits and Challenges of Collaborative Multi-Agency WorkingHow to Operate and Manage Productive Multi-Agency Partnership WorkingDeveloping Effective Team Around the Child Partnership WorkingThe Features of Good Practice in Multi-Agency Partnership WorkingEvaluating the Impact and Outcomes of Multi-Agency Partnership Working Downloadable Material ContentsChapter 1Figure 1.2 Checklist for developing effective multi-agency partnership workingTable 1.3 Joint inter-professional visioning and development activityTable 1.4 Common core of skills and knowledge for multi-agency workingTable 1.6 Professional Standards for Teachers and multi-professional knowledgeTable 1.7 National Occupational Standards for Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools - Working with ColleaguesChapter 2Figure 2.1 SWOT analysis for multi-agency partnership workingFigure 2.2 Force field analysis framework for multi-agency partnership workingFigure 2.3 Diamond ranking templateFigure 2.4 Checklist for building the multi-agency teamTable 2.1 Benefits practitioners bring to multi-agency team workingTable 2.2 Nine diamonds inter-professional multi-agency activityTable 2.3 Personal profile for multi-agency practitionersTable 2.4 External service/agency information sheetChapter 3Figure 3.1 Checklist for operating a multi-agency tam in an educational settingFigure 3.2 Checklist for managing change for multi-agency collaborationTask 1: Changing practiceTask 2: What helps to effect change?Task 3: Managing change in the multi-agency teamTable 3.4 Multi-agency benchmark self-assessmentFigure 3.5 Model Partnership Commitment AgreementTable 3.5 Skills and Knowledge Audit for multi-agency partnership workingTable 3.6 Collaborative working surveyChapter 4Figure 4.1 Team around the Child pupil-friendly planFigure 4.2 Team around the Child QuestionnaireFigure 4.4 Checklist for confidentiality and information sharing TAC Development Task (p.75)Chapter 5Table 5.1 Summary of effective multi-agency practice strategiesGroup Practical Task (p.82)Table 5.2a Template for sharing good practice in multi-agency workingTable5.2b Multi-agency good practice templateChapter 6Table 6.1 Every Child Matters OutcomesTable 6.2 National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity ServicesTable 6.4 Mapping and evaluating the impact of multi-agency provisionTable 6.5 Evaluating the five ECM outcomes in a children's centreTable 6.6 Evaluating partnership working in a children's centreTable 6.7 Exemplar of an extended school evaluation profile on external partner agencies collaborative workingFigure 6.5Checklist for monitoring and evaluating multi-agency provisionTable 6.8 Evaluating the effectiveness of a multi-agency partnershipTable 6.9 Evaluating multi-agency partnership commitment and contributions