The Team Around the Child

The most important changes to children's services 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. Multiagency approaches will be developed to serve the needs of local children and families. This massive programme 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 Centres 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 Centres 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. The contributors are all committed to working within a multi-agency framework to secure the well-being of young children and their families.

ISBN 1858564182   Pages 192 ISBN13 9781858564180 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Trentham Books Ltd   Weight (grammes) 363 Imprint Trentham Books Ltd   Published in Stoke-on-Trent Format Hardback   Height (mm) 244 Publication date 01 Mar 2007   Width (mm) 170 Library of Congress HV40   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY 362.70941   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

Ch. 1		The case for integrating education with care in the early years by Iram Siraj-Blatchford		1
Ch. 2		Integrating children's services : the case for child protection by Margaret McCullough		7
Ch. 3		Multi-agency working : the historical background by Jenny French		47
Ch. 4		Keeping people in the big picture : national policy and local solutions by Martin Needham		67
Ch. 5		Negotiating the moral maze : developing ethical literacy in multi-agency settings by Judith Whitmarsh		87
Ch. 6		Leadership in multi-agency work by Bernadette Duffy and Janice Marshall		105
Ch. 7		Investigating the practical challenges of integrated multi-agency work by Faye Stanley		121
Ch. 8		Exploring the perspectives of early years practitioners in a newly established children's centre by Jenny Worsley		135
Ch. 9		Collaboration with parents : the role of the multi-agency setting in working with parents by Karen Clarke and Amanda French		151

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