About Local Authority Intervention Into A Child's Upbringing

About Local Authority Intervention Into A Child's Upbringing

Introduction

If we analyze the given case, it is clear that Caroline acted irresponsibly. Not only that, she has been under the influence of alcohol. The level of health within a given population is affected not only by its health services but also by factors as diverse as environmental, social, cultural and economic influences. These factors are addressed by many publicly funded organisations, including local government and local health authorities. The increasing recognition of the role that social determinants play in the health of the population makes it clear that health cannot be the responsibility of just one agency and, over the last three decades, collaboration has been an increasing focus of health promotion internationally.

Discussion and Analysis

From the given case, any interventions of interagency collaboration and partnership between statutory health and local government agencies where the level of partnership between collaborators could be clearly determined (for example, who are the partner agencies and what are their roles within the partnership) and where the interventions were aimed at improving health.

Interventions could be delivered by a wide range of partner agencies but needed to include personnel funded or hosted by a local health agency (for example, doctors, nurses, therapists, midwives, health visitors, dieticians, school nurses, clinical psychologists, health promotion practitioners including public health units) and personnel funded or hosted by a local government agency (for example, social workers, teachers, educational psychologists, housing support workers, library and leisure staff, transport staff, environmental health officers). Multi-partner collaborations could include education authorities and health agencies, departments for transportation or housing and health agencies, or a mix of these. Interventions where another organisation, for example a voluntary organisation, had been contracted to act on behalf of one of those agencies were also considered for inclusion.

Collaboration was defined as 'two or more parties that pursue an agreed set of goals and work cooperatively toward a set of shared health outcomes', adapted from that used by Gillies in describing alliances and partnerships for health promotion. Partnerships for health promotion focus on health outcomes rather than specific health promotion goals. Local collaboration was judged to have taken place if there was evidence that the partners had agreed local joint working arrangements and shared objectives.

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