Summary
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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; Leadership and management in multi-agency settings; What the ‘new professionals’ look like
Suitable for all early years practitioners working in, or organizing, multi-agency practice at any level, this book is also relevant to all those working in children's services and to students of early childhood.
The ‘New Professionals’
The ‘New Professionals’
This chapter looks more closely at what the new professional will need to look like in order to meet changing demands and emphases and how current training and development programmes match those needs to ensure high-quality engagement with all the groups shown in Figure 7.1. The chapter looks at the following:
Figure 7.1 The child at the centre
- the context of the ‘new professionals’;
- the importance of practitioner research for the new professionals;
- what new skills the new professionals will need to meet these demands;
- the new job specification.
Introduction
This chapter presents a very personal view which is intended to provoke reflection and debate. In compiling it I have drawn on my own experience, information from colleagues and practitioners in the field and research literature, but ...
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