Patnership

1) Understand partnership working

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Identify the features of effective partnership working
While the idea of partnership is often accepted as understood, there is in fact very little theoretical underpinning of the concepts involved. In childcare, it could be said that partnerships are those relationships between the services, with users and carers. They are formed between individuals or groups that have a responsibility to cooperate in undertaking mutually agreed service goals. Any information that is shared with other partnerships is for the benefit of the child and their family, by partnerships working together and gathering all the information together it builds a bigger picture of the child’s lifestyle. Each partnership may see different things in their visits to the family or when the child goes to settings and clinics. So by all working together they can implement and plan for all needs not just one that maybe seen by one professional. For effective partnership to work they will need to have good communication written and oral, build positive relationships in terms of respect, good rapport and understanding, share information, maintain good regular contact, work together for the needs of the children and have good working practice. An effective partnership working is a joint working arrangement where partners all agree to achieve the same goals for the client despite being independent bodies. In my setting I work in partnership with:

Agencies
SENCO
Speech & Language Therapist
Occupational Therapist
Safeguarding officer
Social Services
Local authority
Ofsted

Agencies
SENCO
Speech & Language Therapist
Occupational Therapist
Safeguarding officer
Social Services
Local authority
Ofsted

Staff
Colleagues
Manager
Room leaders
Nursery nurse
Cook

Staff
Colleagues
Manager
Room leaders
Nursery nurse
Cook

Children
Children

Sunbeam Day Nursery
Sunbeam Day Nursery

Parents/Carers
Mothers
Fathers
Relatives...