Interconnections
Seminar
Wednesday
June 18th 2008
Postgraduate
Centre, City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham, B18 7QH
£95 for professionals.
Parents free. Places limited.
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What are the advantages
of a primary interventionist?
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Does TAC help
reduce waiting lists?
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How does TAC support
children at risk?
The seminar
will give detailed information about the principles and practice
of the TAC approach. It will provide an excellent starting point
for people who want to adopt and adapt the TAC approach in their
locality.
Team Around
the Child is the small
individualised team around a child who needs ongoing multiple
interventions. TAC reduces the large number of practitioners to
a manageable number. Membership of each child’s TAC is parent
plus the two or three key practitioners who offer the most regular
and practical interventions.
TAC can progress
into ‘TAC-Extra’ for children with disabilities and special
needs. When the members of a TAC are working together well and
have established trust with each other, they can, if they wish,
integrate their separate discipline-specific programmes into a
single whole-child programme and, if it is appropriate, nominate
a primary interventionist. TAC-Extra reduces the number of people
the baby or young child has to relate to and can create time flexibility
for busy practitioners.
TAC
has been developed in work
with babies and pre-school children with multiple / complex needs.
TAC has a different form when applied to children and young people
at risk.
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9.15 |
Reception
and Refreshments |
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10.00 |
Peter
Limbrick |
Introduction
to the day
Plenary
presentation with discussion:
TAC
& TAC-Extra – philosophy, principles and practice. This
will include making the best use of practitioners’ time
to support the growing numbers of ‘complex’ children. |
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11.00 |
Break |
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11.45 |
Lynne
Boulter, Head
Paediatric Occupational Therapist, and
Liz
Wassall,
Principal Speech and Language Therapist, Walsall Teaching Primary Care Trust |
Plenary
presentation with discussion:
TAC
with babies and children who have disabilities and special
needs – including work with children’s centres and transition
into school. |
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12.45 |
Discussion:
plenary or small groups |
TAC
into school: Continuing good family-centred practice after
admission into an educational placement |
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1.30 |
Lunch |
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2.20 |
Laura
Johnston, Head of Service, Multi-Agency Teams, Shropshire
County Council |
Plenary
presentation with discussion:
TAC:
re-shaping services for children and young people who are
vulnerable and at risk
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TAC as
the mainstream way of working
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Focusing
on the child’s needs, not service thresholds
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Measuring
the difference the TAC approach makes |
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3.30 |
Last questions |
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4.00 |
Seminar
ends. The room will remain open for informal discussions. |
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It is our intention to present
the programme as described but we reserve the right to make
necessary alterations |
Costs to include lunch: £95
+ vat at 17.5%. There are free places for parents.
For booking online: http://www.icwhatsnew.com/services/events/TAC.htm
For a booking form please contact
p.limbrick@virgin.net
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