Since Peter Limbrick established Interconnections
in 1995, there have been welcome developments in ideas and
theories about effective support for babies, children and young people
who have disabilities / special needs, and their families and carers.
Interconnections has contributed to this new thinking as and when it could,
and the services we now offer have evolved as these ideas have changed.
Our focus, however, remains firmly on children who require ongoing multiple
interventions, for it is these children and their families who
present the greatest challenge for service providers to work together
to offer integrated or ‘joined-up’ support.
To encourage and support all service providers who want to improve
how they work together in pursuit of effective support, Interconnections
offers:
- Consultancy, tailored-training and evaluation for Team Around
the Child (TAC) services*
- Networking meetings, seminars
and conferences – regional and national
- Publications for service
development and professional development
- Presentations and workshop facilitation at events organised
by other organisations*
- Facilitation of team away-days for service development and
team building*
- Facilitation of dialogue between teams and parents*
* Please
contact us to discuss your needs.
About Peter Limbrick:
Peter Limbrick has a science degree from Liverpool University and has enjoyed a career in which senior management in special schools has been mixed with management of voluntary sector organisations. At the beginning of the 1990s Peter established the charity One Hundred Hours to explore and validate keyworker-based family support for new families whose baby had neurological impairment. At the end of the decade One Hundred Hours became the Handsel Trust (www.handseltrust.org) which is working nationally at the time of writing to alleviate sleep deprivation in families with a disabled member. Peter chairs the Trust.
Peter had a younger brother, Nicholas, who had cerebral palsy. He was born during Peter’s later years at secondary school and died at the age of 40. Although Peter has this long experience as a sibling, he feels it is his experience of One Hundred Hours families that has provided the major impetus for his present work as writer, trainer and independent consultant to health, education and social services in the UK and Ireland. In this role Peter has developed and promulgated the Team Around the Child system (TAC) to meet the needs of statutory services that want to create joined-up support within very limited resources.
Peter, under the name of Interconnections, publishes the online Interconnections Quarterly Journal (IQJ) for practitioners who support children and young people with disabilities and special needs. He also publishes the free monthly Interconnections Electronic Bulletin.
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