Developing multi-professional teamwork for integrated children's services : research, policy and practice

157 Pages·2010·2.805 MB·English

by  Angela Anning, et al

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Developing Multi-professional
Teamwork for Integrated
Children’s Services
Research, Policy and Practice

Developing
Multi-professional
Teamwork for
Integrated Children’s
Services
Research, Policy and Practice
Angela Anning, David Cottrell, Nick Frost,
Josephine Green and Mark Robinson
Open University Press
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First edition published 2006
First published in this second edition 2010
Copyright © Angela Anning, David Cottrell, Nick Frost, Josephine Green and
Mark Robinson 2010
All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of
criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a
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be used herein (in case studies or in examples) are not intended to represent any
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Part1: Researching and understanding multi-professional teams:
working with children 1
1 Working in a multi-professional world 3
2 Researching multi-professional teams 13
3 Organizing and managing multi-professional teams 27
Part2: Working and learning in a multi-professional team 49
4 Multi-professional perspectives on childhood 51
5 Changing roles and responsibilities in multi-professional teams 60
6 Sharing knowledge in the multi-professional workplace 76
Part3: Planning, implementing and supporting
multi-professional teams working with children 87
7 Making it work 1 – addressing key dilemmas 89
8 Making it work 2 – strategies for decision-making and

service delivery 102
9 Taking multi-professional practice forward 111
Appendix: Multi-agency team checklist 132
Bibliography 136
Index 143

Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the following people who have worked with us on
this project: Bernice McBride, Sophie Weeks, Angela Jackman and Pam Irwin
have all helped with the research process and in producing the final text. The
Economic and Social Research Council (UK) provided the funding without
which the research would not have been possible. We would like to thank
the teams who allowed us to work with them and gain insights into their
challenging and innovative workplaces.
We have taken the opportunity of producing the second edition to bring
the policy context of our research up-to-date. The main thrust of our findings
and argument, however, remains substantially the same.

Part 1
Researching and
understanding
multi-professional teams:
working with children
Part 1 sets the scene for the book. It outlines the policy and workplace context
for the study on which the book is based, describes the research methods we
used and analyses the structure and management of some multi-professional
teams.