Multi-agency Working in the Early Years: Challenges and Opportunities - Hardcover

Gasper, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847875270 ISBN 13: 9781847875273

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

What does working in partnership look like in practice?

Getting multi-agency working right is an exciting but challenging goal in early years care and education; this book suggests ways to draw together the different professional ideas, methods and targets.

Enhancing the delivery of services to children, parents and communities is essential if we are to address the detrimental effects of poverty and exclusion. Looking at the Birth to 8 age range and drawing on interviews with Children's Centre leaders, the book considers:

- the benefits, and complexities, of multi-agency working;

- what enables, and impedes, good practice;

- examples of successful multi-agency working;

- what the 'new professionals' look like;

- international perspectives.

Suitable for all pre-school and early years practitioners working in, or organizing, multi-agency practice at any level, this book is relevant to all those working in Children's Services and useful for anyone studying early childhood or multi-agency working in practice.

Michael Gasper is an educational consultant and researcher. He has over 30 years of experience in early years education and research, including roles as a mentor, assessor and tutor on the National Professional Qualification in Integrated Centre Leadership (NPQICL).

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Review:

'We are living through an historic time of change in the delivery of children's and family services in England. At the heart of this change is a cultural and professional shift towards multi-agency working which encourages all professionals to work in partnership and integrate their services around the needs of the child and the family. The challenges of this new way of working are enormous and this timely, informed and extremely accessible book will support all lead professionals in developing the effectiveness of their multi-agency working. It will also challenge their thinking and understanding about how a multi-agency approach might deliver enhanced outcomes for every child and family. This book will be an invaluable support for all those concerned to make multi-agency working work!' - Professor Christine Pascal, Director of the Centre for Research in Early Childhood and President of the European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA)

'Focusing on the birth to eight-years-old age range, the book considers what enables and impedes good practice, and provides a good number of examples of multi-agency working, leadership and management in action' - Early Years Educator

The book makes an interesting and thought-provoking read. (Jane Payler)

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1847875270
• ISBN 13: 9781847875273
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176