Overview

This popular and bestselling book provides an important practical resource for all professionals engaged with planning, implementing and evaluating multi-professional teamwork and practice in children's services. This new third edition builds on the success of earlier editions, retaining its classic chapters of enduring value while incorporating some fresh new content.  Four new chapters - chosen to highlight and consider contemporary new developments in the field - explore safeguarding children; the challenges of information sharing; new integrated approaches to SEN; and multi-agency responses to child sexual exploitation. Combining theoretical perspectives, research evidence from the 'real world' of children's services, and reflections on policy and practice, this new edition retains its popular approach and is fully updated to reflect the numerous changes to policy, practice, and research. The book:•Exemplifies what multi-professional work looks like in practice•Examines real dilemmas faced by professionals trying to make it work, and shows how these dilemmas can be resolved•Considers lessons to be learnt, implications for practice and recommendations for making multi-professional practice more effective Featuring helpful guidance, theoretical frameworks and evidence-based insights into practice, this book is a key resource for students studying on a wide range of courses related to children and families, as well as qualified social workers, teachers, support workers in children's centres, family support workers, health workers, and managers of a range of children and youth services. 

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Author:   Nick Frost ,  Mark Robinson
Publisher:   Open University Press
Imprint:   Open University Press
Edition:   3rd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.70cm
Weight:   0.302kg
ISBN:  

9780335263967

ISBN 10:   0335263968
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   16 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Researching and understanding multi-professional teams working with children and young people 1. Working in a multi-professional world 2. Researching multi-professional teams 3. Organizing and managing multi-professional teams Part 2: Working and learning in a multi-professional team 4. Multi-professional perspectives on childhood 5. Changing roles and responsibilities in multi-professional teams 6. Sharing knowledge in the multi-professional workplace Part 3: Planning, implementing and supporting multi-professional teams working with children 7. Making it work 1 – addressing key dilemmas 8. Making it work 2 – strategies for decision-making and service delivery Part 4: Contemporary challenges in multi-professional work with children and young people 9. Safeguarding children: leadership and integrated assessment 10. Joining it up: multi-professional information sharing 11. Integrated approaches to Special Educational Needs 12. Multi-agency working to safeguard children from Child Sexual Exploitation 13. Taking multi-professional practice forward Appendix Multi-agency team checklist Bibliography  

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Nick Frost is Professor of Social Work (Children, childhood and families) at the Faculty of Health, Leeds Metropolitan University. He has published widely in the fields of child welfare and professional learning. Nick worked in local authority social work for 15 years before commencing his academic career.

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