Early Support For Children With Complex
Needs:
Team
Around the Child and the Multi-agency Keyworker
By Peter Limbrick. Published in 2004 by Interconnections.
ISBN 0-9540976-2-9. £14.95
From back cover-
In
traditional approaches to children with complex needs practitioners
have worked separately, providing many families with a fragmented
service. This manual addresses how to join these services together
and argues that effective early support can only be achieved if
key practitioners take time to establish better working relationships
with parents and with each other.
The
author has designed the family-centred Team-Around-the-Child model
(TAC) as a structure for this close collaboration and offers here
an account of its philosophy, principles, outcomes and management.
Each
child’s TAC has a Team Leader who functions as the family’s multi-agency
Keyworker with a task list which is purposely limited to prevent
overload. In this way, successful TAC projects have been established
with only modest additional resources. The author presents a vision
of effective early support for all families who have a child with
complex needs and suggests that this is dependent on a significant
increase in resources.
TAC
principles and practice have been adopted by many health trusts
and councils. This manual provides first-hand accounts of three
TAC projects and parents’ comments from a fourth.
Contents:
PART I: Effective early
support
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Introduction
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Early Support
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TAC: Family-centred
early support
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The main practical outcomes
of TAC
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The TAC Team Leader
as multi-agency Keyworker
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The management of multi-agency
support
PART II: TAC in action
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Wolverhampton Keyworking
Pilot Project
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Halton Team Around
the Child
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Walsall Child Development
Service
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Essex Holistic Planning
Model
Available from:
Interconnections
9 Pitt Avenue
Worcester
WR4 0PL
Tel/Fax: 01905 23255
E-mail:
p.limbrick@virgin.net
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