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EARLY LEARNING AND CHILDCARE



EARLY LEARNING AND CHILDCARE

Importance of multi-agency working and integrated working

Multi-agency working focuses on providing different benefits to children, families, and young people by working together in a team. Multi-agency working has different models which are multi-agency teams, multi-agency services, and the most importantly integrated services. Multi-agency workings effectively and progressively mentioned as integrated workings.

Integrated working basically emphasize on encouraging and enabling people who are from professional life, to work together in a team by all their efforts efficiently to provide frontline services. It basically works effectively to support every individual child and provide them all the facilities in order to improve their lives. Integrated working involves different variations to provide services to young people and children which bring change in their lives. Those changes are obligatory in the practice and management of all the organizations (Smith, B.D et. al, 2007, pp. 556).

Integrated working practices and multiagency working in partnership

Multi-agency includes and integrating working effectively helps young people, families, and children by

Providing financial benefits to the people

Provide easy and rapid access from different services such as children's centre, youth clubs, schools and many other specialist services.

Analyse the need and want and tell it to others. In this way families will find easy to get help and they won't explain their problems again and again to different people from professions.

Explain the story related to personal life in order to create plans which will bring betterment.

Give proper guarantee that families and children get suitable intermediations which are effectively delivered, regularly reviewed, and well planned.

Quicker or early access to expertise or services

Early intervention and identification

External agencies work in this service in a wide direction

Supports parents for their betterment

Provides children, young family, and families appropriate services according to their needs

Improve education for the children to make them successful in life.

Functions of external agencies

External agencies works in improving the life of children, families, and young people by working in team to provide premium quality, care, safe, learning, encouragement and other opportunities to the children.

External agencies ensures parents to give their child better opportunities in life. They contribute for the development of children by proposing an employment perspective on different services of childcare such as needs and trends of local employment. External agencies works to reduce the rate if poverty amongst young people, families, and children. They provide better education and lifestyle. They give counselling to the children who are suffering from various mental health issues. External agencies also provide services for youth in order to be successful. They have several education welfare services which provide young people and children a better education and they detect the main problems of youth.

Barriers to integrated working and multiagency working

There are number of barriers in integrated workings. The main barrier is lack of social staff in medical which causes many difficulties in terms of safety and medical treatment. These difficulties are because of different geographical background, status differences, and communication boundaries. This mismatch in behaviors, cultures creates difficulties in understanding the ...