Workforce : Integrated working

• NHS at home: children's community nursing services
  This document shares the findings of a Department of Health review of the contribution community children's nursing services, as a key component of community children's services, can make to the future outcomes of integr ...
  
  Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Leadership in children’s services
  This paper examines the different contexts for leadership in children’s services with a particular focus on integrated working. It reviews contemporary theories that appear to offer relevant frameworks for thinking about ...
  
  Publisher: Children & Society
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Strategic toolkit for planning integrated working: tools to support health and youth practitioners to develop their integrated practice
  This toolkit, which is aimed at those who design, plan and deliver services, covers strategic planning to enable successful integrated working practices. It covers the strategic steps to take that will enable health and ...
  
  Publisher: 4 Children
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• The Skills Development Framework (SDF)
  The Skills Development Framework (SDF) aims to support local employers to cultivate integrated working skills within their organisations and across the young people's workforce. The framework is intended to inform the wo ...
  
  Publisher: Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC)
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Toolkit for the integration of Sure Start children's centre services, children's services and health
  A toolkit of resource materials, facilitators notes and session plans to support multi agency teams to manage change and improve performance through integrated working. It can be used as a faciliated programme of activit ...
  
  Publisher: Together for Children (TfC)
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Healthy Child Programme collaborative briefing: findings, successes and learning from the programme (Eastern Development Centre)
  This briefing summarises some of the findings, successes and learning from Eastern Development Centre's healthy child programme collaborative. The programme ran from June 2009 to April 2010, with 13 teams participating i ...
  
  Publisher: Child Health and Maternity Partnership (CHaMP)
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Capacity building for improving child health: integrated working to improve service provision for disabled children
  This report summarises the aims and outcomes of a diagnostic and planning day organised by the Child Health and Maternity Partnership (CHaMP) to improve service provision for disabled children. The Quality, Improvement, ...
  
  Publisher: Child Health and Maternity Partnership (CHaMP)
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Integrated Qualifications Framework (IQF)
  The Integrated Qualifications Framework (IQF) will be launching in April 2010. By providing a practical guide to sector approved qualifications for those working with children and young people, it will play a key role i ...
  
  Publisher: Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC)
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Integrated children's workforce planning tool
  The National CAMHS Support Service (NCSS) Workforce Programme is working with ChiMat to develop the web based version of the workforce planning tool that has been successfully piloted and rolled out since 2006.
  
  Publisher: Child and Maternal Health Observatory (ChiMat)
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Every professional matters: sustaining professionalism within integrated children’s services
  The Children's Services Professional Network, an umbrella body for professionals working in children’s services, has published Every Professional Matters, a report advocating the retention and support of specialist profe ...
  
  Publisher: Aspect
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• DfE: Integrated working
  This section of the DfE website explains key initiatives and resources supporting integrated working in children's services. Information on integrated working was transferred from the CWDC website in April 2012. Links to ...
  
  Publisher: Department for Education (DfE)
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Integrated working (Every Child Matters)
  This section of the Every Child Matters website links to key resources on integrated working.
  
  Publisher: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Operational toolkit for planning integrated working: tools to support health and youth practitioners to develop their integrated practice
  This toolkit, which is aimed at those who shape, design, plan and deliver services, recognises the common barriers to integrated working and offers action plan solutions to overcome them. It describes a number of positiv ...
  
  Publisher: 4 Children
  Published Date: 2009
  
  
• One children's workforce tool
  This one children's workforce online tool aims to help every children's trust establish the progress they have made in developing one children's workforce - a workforce that is integrated and high quality, and making the ...
  
  Publisher: Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC)
  Published Date: 2009
  
  
• Facilitating integrated practice between children’s services and health. (Case studies of innovative working practice)
  A series of case studies illustrating innovative working practice in integrated working and implementation of the child health strategy. This document accompanies A Toolkit for the Integration of Sure Start Children’s C ...
  
  Publisher: Together for Children and Together for Disabled Children
  Published Date: 2009
  
  
• Moving forward together: Integrating workforce strategies in children’s services, update autumn 2009
  This report, commissioned by the Children's Workforce Network (CWN), supplements the main integrated workforce strategy final project. It looks specifically at learning from the children's services study areas and highli ...
  
  Publisher: Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA)
  Published Date: 2009
  
  
• The team around the child and the lead professional: a guide for managers
  This guidance has been updated in order to reflect policy developments and include revisions identified in consultation with practitioners and managers across the children and young people’s workforce.
  
  Publisher: Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC)
  Published Date: 2009
  
  
• Early identification, assessment of needs and intervention: the common assessment framework for children and young people. A guide for managers
  This guidance for managers has been updated and re-titled in order to reflect policy developments and include revisions identified in consultation with practitioners and managers across the children and young people’s wo ...
  
  Publisher: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
  Published Date: 2009
  
  
• Early identification, assessment of needs and intervention: the common assessment framework for children and young people. A guide for practitioners
  This guidance for practitioners has been updated and re-titled in order to reflect policy developments and include revisions identified in consultation with practitioners and managers across the children and young people ...
  
  Publisher: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
  Published Date: 2009
  
  
• Common core of skills and knowledge for the children's workforce
  The Common Core of Skills and Knowledge for the children's workforce - often referred to as the Common Core - sets out the basic skills and knowledge needed by people whose work (paid or voluntary) brings them into regul ...
  
  Publisher: Every Child Matters, Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
  Published Date: 2009
  
  
• Lead Professional: Practitioners' and Managers' guides
  The Managers' guide is for all strategic and operational managers across all children's services who have responsibility for implementing a lead professional model of working to ensure better outcomes for children, young ...
  
  Publisher: Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC)
  Published Date: 2009
  
  
• The impact of integrated services on children and their families in Sure Start children’s centres
  This report evaluates the impact of integrated services on children, parents and families in 20 children’s centres. The effective integration of services is having a positive impact in terms of support for children a ...
  
  Publisher: Ofsted
  Published Date: 2009
  
  
• Common Assessment Framework (CAF)
  The CAF is a shared assessment and planning framework for use across all children's services and all local areas in England. It aims to help the early identification of children's additional needs and promote co-ordinate ...
  
  Publisher: Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC)
  Published Date: 2009
  
  
• Sure Start Children's Centres Workforce Wheel
  The Children's Centres Workforce Wheel is an interactive tool to support the development of an effective, integrated multi-agency children's centre workforce. It provides information about the roles and responsibilities ...
  
  Publisher: Together for Children (TfC), TfC ceased operation 31/03/11; its website has now closed. This resource now available on the National College Website.
  Published Date: 2009
  
  
• Privileging practice: Facing the challenge of integrated working for outcomes for children
  Integrated working for outcomes is complex and challenging in theory and practice. Yet, outcomes and integrated working are central to the policy goals for children and families in Ireland. In this article, the authors p ...
  
  Publisher: Children and Society
  Published Date: 2009
  
  
• CWN Vision and principles for induction to the children and young people’s workforce
  The vision and principles draw attention to key initiatives of the CWN that have a relationship to induction and introductory training, including: • the Values for Integrated Working with Children and Young People • th ...
  
  Publisher: Children's Workforce Network (CWN)
  Published Date: 2009
  
  
• Strategy and working practice - Integrated working
  Those who work in children's services should be valued as skilled professionals and encouraged to be ambitious for every child and young person. Working practices should be integrated and show a commitment to partnership ...
  
  Publisher: Department for Education (DfE)
  Published Date: 2009
  
  
• Progress towards integrated working: 2007-2008 evaluation
  The second annual evaluation of progress towards implementing integrated working provides an overview nationally and locally of progress in the use of integrated tools, practices and processes across the country. The ...
  
  Publisher: Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC)
  Published Date: 2009
  
  
• Children's Integrated Healthcare
  Our vision is to design a system of children’s healthcare which provides ready access to a variety of urgent and planned healthcare in the same location, delivered by a team of healthcare professionals working together i ...
  
  Publisher: Skills for Health - Workforce Projects Team
  Published Date: 2008
  
  
• Making it happen: working together for children, young people and families
  Making It Happen has been published to support the development and implementation of more effective front-line integrated working practice across the children's workforce. The booklet contains clear and concise explanati ...
  
  Publisher: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
  Published Date: 2008
  
  
• Values for integrated working with children and young people
  This document from the General Social Care Council sets out a statement of values for social care practitioners who work with children and young people.
  
  Publisher: General Social Care Council (GSCC)
  Published Date: 2008
  
  
• Lead professional
  The Every Child Matters: Change for Children programme is working to ensure that children and young people who have additional needs achieve better outcomes and have a better experience of services through the provision ...
  
  Publisher: Every Child Matters, Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
  Published Date: 2007
  
  
• Lead professional - Practitioners guide
  The lead professional is a key element in providing integrated support for children or young people who require services from a number of practitioners. They co-ordinate provision across agencies, offering a single point ...
  
  Publisher: Every Child Matters (ECM)
  Published Date: 2006