Product Description

The book offers up to date information and guidance to the many professionals charged with responding to government agendas, in the UK as elsewhere in the world, of reshaping children's services towards integrated service delivery.

The book explores the complexities of implementing the rhetoric of multi-professional teamwork within the real world of delivering children's services. It introduces readers to scholarship in the field. It presents research evidence of recent successful practice in multi-professional teamwork in the UK and discusses the implications of this evidence for the roll out of integrated children's services across the country.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83662 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 156 pages

About the Author
Angela Anning has a background in work in early years education and family intervention programmes, particularly in urban areas of the UK. Her research interests include early years curriculum, especially art education, and the professional knowledge of those responsible for delivering services for young children. She is a research professor at the University of Leeds and a principal investigator at Birkbeck College, London, for the national evaluation of the anti-poverty initiative Sure Start.

David Cottrell is Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Associate Medical Director for Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in Leeds. He has helped develop and evaluate a range of innovative, community based and responsive services to children within the NHS and in partnership with local education and social services.

Nick Frost is Senior Lecturer in Child Welfare and Lifelong Learning, in the School of Education at the University of Leeds. Nick was formerly a social worker and policy officer and has worked in the public and voluntary sectors. He has published widely in the field of child welfare and lifelong learning. Nick is interested in how professionals learn, joined-up working and aspects of child welfare including children’s homes, family support and child protection.

Josephine Green is Professor of Psychosocial Reproductive Health and Deputy Director of the Mother & Infant Research Unit at the University of York.

Mark Robinson is a senior researcher with a background in education, health and social services research. His research interests include social inclusion and diversity; management of organisational change; user involvement; and young people. He has a particular interest in methodological issues in qualitative and multi-method research.