Peter Limbrick is available to come to your venue for work that is tailored to your service-development needs. This can include:

• Consultancy to support service development
• Chairing, facilitating and/or presenting at your conference or meetings
• Meeting parents, listening to their views and reporting to service providers

This outreach work is to support statutory and voluntary organisations in the UK or Ireland and is likely to be one of the following –

• A one-day or part-day session
• A number of consecutive days
• A series of sessions over a period of time

Costs. Consultancy work and helping at conferences is charged at £400 per day plus expenses. Part-days are charged at £250. Fees for extended projects can be negotiated.

Interconnections Seminar at Your Venue

Ready for Change

To discuss underlying issues in the design of a multi-agency, family-centred approach for babies and young children who require multiple interventions

The topics offered for discussion below assume that the increasing numbers of children who need multiple interventions will not be matched by increasing numbers of practitioners (e.g. outreach nurses, specialist teachers, therapists, social workers etc.) and that new integrated models of intervention will fail if they overload practitioners. (The Seminar will support service providers whether or not they are following such government initiatives as England’s Dept. for Children, Schools and Families’ Early Support Programme.)

Facilitator: Peter Limbrick, independent consultant and writer. Peter’s background includes senior management roles in special education and in the voluntary sector - as well as having a younger brother with severe cerebral palsy. During the 1990s Peter developed and validated a keyworker-based family support model for neurologically-impaired babies and infants. Peter then developed the Team Around the Child model (TAC) for children who require multiple interventions.

Christine Lenehan, Director, Council for Disabled Children, has written:

‘Peter Limbrick’s early work on team around the child approaches transformed how we thought about services and enabled the move from services which met the needs of professionals to services which put parents and children at the centre. The government’s Early Support Programme has subsequently promoted and developed this.’ (Limbrick, P., 2007, p3)

Arranging the Seminar at your venue

Ready for Change can be a one-day or a two-day Seminar and it is organised between Interconnections and a ‘host’ organisation. The host can be a single organisation or a combination of local services or agencies.

Format: The Seminar will be a mix of short, introductory presentations by Peter Limbrick, plenary discussions and small-group discussions. Break-out rooms are an advantage but they are not essential. For a one-day Seminar, the host organisation is asked to select up to 4 of the 8 topics offered for discussion. For a two-day seminar the host organisation can select any or all of the 8. Obviously, the time available for discussion of each topic varies according to the number of topics selected.

Catering and equipment: The host organisation is asked to provide the venue (usually one large room with moveable seating) and refreshments and to arrange who is attending as delegates. Peter will use PowerPoint slides and can provide projector and laptop if necessary. A screen and flipchart (+ materials) will be required. For larger groups the host is asked to provide a PA system. Please provide one or two tables for displaying materials and a table for laptop and notes. The Seminar does not need the formality of a stage or lectern.

Timing: The day can be timed to suit local needs, starting between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. and finishing between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. Dividing the day into 4 sessions (with lunch and two breaks) works well. It helps if break times have some flexibility so that discussions do not have to be interrupted while in full flow.

Costs: Interconnections total costs are listed below and include all expenses for travel and accommodation. If the location of the venue requires any unusual or atypical expenses then Interconnections will seek to negotiate an addition to the costs. The figures below are subject to VAT at 17.5%.

If you want to host Ready for Change, but your team or service has a very restricted budget, please contact Interconnections.

Payment: We will invoice the host organisation after the Seminar. We are happy to invoice participating services or agencies separately for their blocks of delegates. We cannot invoice delegates individually.

Relevant books by Peter Limbrick, published by Interconnections:

1. Family Centred Support for Children with Disabilities and special needs. A collection of Essays. Edited by Peter Limbrick. 2007.
2. Early Support for Children with Complex Needs: Team Around the Child and the Multi-agency Keyworker. 2004.
3. An Integrated Pathway for Assessment and Support - for children with complex needs and their families. 2003.
4. The Team Around The Child: Multi-agency service co-ordination for children with complex needs and their families. 2001.

An Away Day for your team

Peter can facilitate an Away Day on your theme for local practitioners and managers. Away Day themes have included:

• A Tonic for Tired Teams: Sharing frustrations and celebrating successes.
• Looking Back and Looking Forward: To review present work and explore ways forward.
• New Partners – New Work: Embarking on new joined-up working with people from other agencies or services.
• Creating a Multi-agency Pathway for children who require multiple interventions.
• Continuing good pre-school practice over the transition into education settings – an Away Day for local practitioners and managers from both sides of the transition.
• Parents and Practitioners Together: To share experiences, feelings, frustrations, joys and ideas.
• Listening to Parents: A session to gather constructive feedback about frustrations and satisfactions and explore ways forward (practitioners not invited).
• Two-day Away Day – Listening to Parents & Exploring Ways Forward. (Day One is just for parents. Day Two is for practitioners and managers (and perhaps 2 or 3 representative parents from Day One).
• Team Around the Child (TAC): TAC philosophy and practice - and how to get the ball rolling in your pre-school services.
• TAC-Extra: Enhanced integration within the TAC approach for the most vulnerable babies, children and families.

Away Days for professionals are charged at £300 per day plus £10 per delegate with no charge for expenses*.
Away Days for your parents and carers. The statutory agency organising the event is charged £350 with no extra costs.
(Away Days usually cater for between 15 and 60 or so delegates.)

Please contact peter.limbrick@icwhatsnew.com for more information.

Costs can be negotiated when budgets are limited.
All prices are subject to VAT at 17.5%.
Invoices can be arranged to fit in with local single-agency or multi-agency budget arrangements.
* We reserve the right to negotiate expenses for atypical journeys.