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"The core philosophy of Team Around the Child (TAC) is to provide a small collaborative team
of just two or three key practitioners around each child
– a team in which the parent has a full place and an equal voice."
Peter Limbrick, 'TAC for the 21st Century', 2009
About Us:
Interconnections
was established in 1995 by Peter Limbrick as a consultancy service to support all practitioners
and managers, from nursery nurses to neurologists, health
visitors to head teachers, who work with babies, children and
young people up to 25 years of age who have ongoing special needs
for whatever reasons.
During this time, Peter Limbrick developed the internationally-renowned Team Around the Child (TAC) system or model of care, first discussed in his publication 'The Team Around the Child: Multi-Agency Service Co-Ordination for Children with Complex Needs and Their Familes'. This system has now been widely adopted by local councils and national care organisations as a definitive model for supporting and helping babies, children and young people with special needs.
Our Services:
Interconnections offers consultancy services, training, workshops, lectures, mentoring, advice, journals and publications on the Team Around the Child (TAC) system. For more information about training for your organisation and representatives, please see the IC Services pages.
This website also acts as a multi-disciplinary resource service for everyone in statutory, voluntary and private agencies, as well as being of interest to young people with disabilities
and, or, special needs, their family members and carers.
We hope that by bringing information and facilitators together we can help provide greater support, communication and available information to children, young
people, and their families.
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Training • Seminars & Workshops
• Purchase our Team Around the Child Publications Online |
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Journal • Subscriptions |
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a month)
• Archived issues |
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• Related organisations and third party events listing |
NEWS
NEW QUARTERLY JOURNAL – April 2010 – Now Available |
Click here to be taken directly to the new Interconnections Quartery Journal. |
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Announcing our New Publication by Peter Limbrick:
'TAC for the 21st Century: A Collection of 9 Essays' |
[Soon to be available to purchase from this website as a complete print publication or as digital PDF documents]
Team Around the Child, variously described as a philosophy, an approach, a model or a system, and often abbreviated to TAC, became an identifiable entity when it was named as such at the beginning of this century with the publication of The Team Around The Child: Multi-agency service co-ordination for children with complex needs and their families. It was the right idea at the right time and seemed to crystallise the concerns and aspirations of very many people. For a small minority, TAC described the way they and their colleagues had always come together for a limited time around a child and family when there was a challenging situation – either an ongoing situation that had frustrated their separate efforts or a sudden crisis that called for shared action. For some practitioners, even before reading the book, the words Team Around the Child offered an immediate solution to worrying fragmentation. For very many parents it sounded like the answer to a prayer for a joined-up service. TAC has the appeal of ‘just common sense’ and many parents would expect TAC on the basis of ‘Why would my child’s practitioners not want to work together?’.
TAC philosophy argues for a small collaborative team of just two or three key practitioners around each child – a team in which the parent has a full place and an equal voice. Any process which excludes or belittles parents is not TAC. Any meeting which is large and not parent and child-friendly is not TAC. Any organisation that labels traditional case conferences as TAC is cheating.
ESSAY 1 |
The Foundations of Team Around the Child (2007)
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Adapted for use in TAC seminars from The Team Around The Child: Multi-agency service co-ordination for children with complex needs and their families, Limbrick, P. 2001. |
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ESSAY 2 |
Keyworkers are an Essential Part of a Quality Service for Families. So Why Do Most Families Not Have One? Is Team Around the Child Part of the Solution? (2004) |
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First published in PMLD Link*, May 2004. |
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ESSAY 3 |
Principles and Practices that Define Team Around the Child (2005) |
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Written for use in TAC seminars. |
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ESSAY 4 |
Team Around the Child: Helping to Keep Families Strong (2005) |
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First published in PMLD Link*, Summer 2005. |
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ESSAY 5 |
Integrated Programmes and the Primary Interventionist in Early Childhood Intervention (2006) |
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First published in PMLD Link*, Summer 2006. |
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ESSAY 6 |
Team Around the Child: The Small Collaborative Team in Early Childhood Intervention for Children and Families Who Require Ongoing Multiple Interventions (2007) |
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First published in Family-Centred Support for Children with Disabilities and Special Needs, Limbrick, P. (Ed) 2007. |
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ESSAY 7 |
The Team Around the Child Approach for Assessment of Needs Within a Local Multi-Agency Integrated Pathway (2008) |
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Adapted from An Integrated Pathway for Assessment and Support: For children with complex needs and their families, Limbrick, P. 2003. First published in Interconnections Quarterly Journal, Issue number 1, April 2008. |
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ESSAY 8 |
Team Around the Child in Early Support: Being Genuinely Child and Family-Centred (2009) |
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Adapted in part from Early Support for Children with Complex Needs: Team Around the Child and the Multi-agency Keyworker, Limbrick, P. 2004 with additional material developed for TAC seminars. |
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ESSAY 9 |
TAC for the 21st Century: A Unifying Theory About Children Who Have Multifaceted Disabilities (2009) |
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First published in Interconnections Quarterly Journal, Issue number 5, April 2009. |
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