Promoting inter-agency collaborátion in child services |
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Authors: | ROGER BRADFORD |
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Institution: | Child Psychology Services, St. Augustine's Hospital, Chatham, Canterbury, Kent, UK |
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Abstract: | Summary Effective collaboration between agencies is often difficult to achieve. Children and their families/carers, who have complex therapeutic needs, present particular difficulties in that agencies need to work together, if they are to produce a co-ordinated and integrated package of care. A Multi-Agency-Consultation-Team (MACT) was set up in an attempt to overcome some of these problems of interagency co-operation. This paper describes the protocol, types of children referred and the recommendations made by the team. Follow-up of these children at 4 months suggests that a MACT does have a role to play in developing high quality services. |
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Keywords: | Children Act consultation team collaboration |
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