The Team Around the Child: Multi-agency Working in the Early Years

by Siraj-Blatchford, Iram; Clarke, Karen; Needham, Martin

• ISBN13: 9781858564180
• ISBN10: 1858564182
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-30
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

Summary

The most important changes to children's services in Britain in the last 20 years are set to improve the outcomes of all children from their early years on. The overall aims are to tackle child poverty, improve child protection and the education and childcare for young children, to raise standards, and to provide greater support for parents in bringing up their children. Multi-agency approaches will be developed to serve the needs of local children and families. This massive program of change to children's services follows the Government's publication of the Children Bill and Every Child Matters: Next Steps. It presents immense challenges and these rest with local government. Key to achieving the declared goals will be the 3500 Children's Centers set up across the country that will integrate provision of education, care, family support, child protection and health services. With its multi-agency focus and underpinning theoretical perspectives, this book will be of special interest to everyone involved in Children's Centers and to the increasing numbers of early years staff involved in multi-agency working and strategies: social workers, child care staff, teachers, health managers, policy makers and advisers, and the people working directly with children and their families. It will be a useful resource for academics and students in higher education.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. xi
The case for integrating education with care in the early years	p. 1
Integrating children's services: the case for child protection	p. 7
Multi-agency working: the historical background	p. 47
Keeping people in the big picture: national policy and local solutions	p. 67
Negotiating the moral maze: developing ethical literacy in multi-agency settings	p. 87
Leadership in multi-agency work	p. 105
Investigating the practical challenges of integrated multi-agency work	p. 121
Exploring the perspectives of early years practitioners in a newly established children's centre	p. 135
Collaboration with parents: the role of the multi-agency setting in working with parents	p. 151
Notes on contributors	p. 170
Index	p. 173
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