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Integrated working

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Integrated working focuses on enabling and encouraging professionals to work together effectively to deliver frontline services.

Improving outcomes for children and young people involves changes to culture and practice across the children's workforce. The Every Child Matters: Change for Children programme sets out a model for change with integration at every level. It also sets out how services for children and young people need to be coordinated and built around their needs.

Click on the links below for tool, training materials or a series of exemplars, or download a series of overarching resources for integrated working from this page. 

  • Delivering services
    The government has developed a set of tools and processes for local areas to use to facilitate integrated working, which you can access from this page.

  • Integrated working training
    The full set of integrated training materials.

  • Integrated working exemplars
    integrated working exemplars describing a child or young person's ideal journey through a range of children services.  

The Children's Workforce Development Council took over responsibility from the DfES for implementation of integrated working in October 2007.

Documents

Effective integrated working: Finding of the Concept of Operations Study
Findings and conclusions of a short study, established in December 2006 to identify the common operational features of effective integrated working.

Supporting Integrated Working: Implementation Roadmap
A high-level view of what is required to implement the processes and tools that support integrated working.

Tools to Support Integrated Working - Presentation 
This presentation focuses on the key tools and processes which help managers and practitioners in children's services to work together. 

Integrated working factsheets
Describing integrated working and all the components

Integrated Children's System, the Common Assessment Framework and ContactPoint - an overview
A short essay on harnessing information for ECM

Making it Happen: working together for children, young people and families
A booklet with information about integrated working in practice.

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This page was last updated on 01 September 2006

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