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• Describe something from the last session that you used in your setting this week.

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Objectives; what we will learn today

•Explain why working in partnership with others is important for children and young people, to include importance of partnerships with parents/carers

•Outline who relevant partners would be in own work setting.

•Summarise the characteristics of effective partnerships and the barriers partnerships might be faced with.

•Recommend how partnerships with parents/carers could be maintained in the setting.

•Analyse how to overcome barriers of partnership working.

Working in Partnership with others

Who do we mean by others?

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professionals

colleagues

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Why should we work in partnership with parents?

Group work

• Complete the A3 table. • You will all need to have an input

and all take part in the presentation.20 minutes to prepare- then

presentation time

Presentation Skills

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbChH0c8ODI

Other Professionals

Who might these professionals be?

Pod/Vod cast

Using the Q3 Handy Video Recorded produce a Pod cast or Vod cast on your chosen professional.

Once finished these can be uploaded to Moodle

Objectives- How are we doing?

Why should we work in partnership with professionals?

Why should we work in partnership with colleagues?

Multi-disciplinary teams Jay is 5 years old and attends school full time. Jay

has a learning support assistant in class. Jay also attends the after school club three days a week, which is held at a local community centre. She

has a support worker who helps her there. Jay is also receiving speech and language therapy. She has exercises to do and the therapist visits her at

school once a month. As Jay is on the special needs register she is seen by the educational

psychologist each year.

Who are all the people involved in supporting Jay and her family?

Homework Task...

Find out your procedure for working with other professionals.

Extension Task- complete a policy summary sheet on this procedure

Characteristics of effective partnership working

• Working together• Share observations• Plan support together• Implement action plans• Evaluate and feedback• Effective meetings• Clear lines of communication• Confidentiality• Parents to be equal in any decision making• Respect parents views

Barriers and difficulties to effective partnership working

How can you overcome the barriers and difficulties to partnership with parents?

(A3 handout)

Why is it important to overcome these barriers and difficulties?

How can you build and maintain partnerships with parents

Summary: Why is it important to work in partnership with others when working

with children?

Think Consequences!!!

To the left to the right!

• Tell the person to your left one thing you now know.

• Tell the person to your right one thing you can take back to your setting.

Build and maintain relationships

• On a post it record down one way to build or maintain a relationship.

Build and maintain relationships

• Pick someone’s post it and add why it is important to build this relationship, include the consequences of not maintaining this relationship

Objectives; what we have covered today

•Explain why working in partnership with others is important for children and young people, to include importance of partnerships with parents/carers

•Outline who relevant partners would be in own work setting.

•Summarise the characteristics of effective partnerships and the barriers partnerships might be faced with.

•Recommend how partnerships with parents/carers could be maintained in the setting.

•Analyse how to overcome barriers of partnership working.

Draw a picture

Next Time

• Understand the importance of effective communication and information sharing in services for children and young people

Home work• Drafts of section 5