Integrated Working
The Every Child Matters agenda is about taking an holistic view of children and their development. Partnership working between agencies such as health, social services education and the voluntary and community sectors, with local authorities and with parents is essential to improve outcomes for children.
Integrated working focuses on enabling and encouraging practitioners to work together and to adopt common processes. This will ensure the delivery of frontline services are coordinated and built around the needs of children and young people.
Rather than wait for problems to deteriorate to meet the referral thresholds for social care, the authority has been keen to develop a range of Level 2 interventions which can provide the necessary early input. It is important that as well as developing those services at Level 2 effective routes are established to ensure easy access for individual children and young people .
Tools to help Integrated Working
The delivery of integrated frontline services to improve outcomes for children and young people needs to be supported by more integrated processes. In York these are:
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Prevention Route Map
What to do if you have a concern about a vulnerable child or young person
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Safeguarding Route Map
What to do if you have a child protection concern
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Information Sharing
Advice on information sharing between practitoners
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YorOK Child Index and ContactPoint
Tool to support information sharing between practitoners
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Your Info (CAF), York’s Common Assessment Framework ( CAF )
A common way of gathering information about children / young people and families and deciding what type of support is needed
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Lead Practitioner
Someone to coordinate support to a child or young person and family
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Thresholds
A guide to help you decide what level of concern you have about a child or young person
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Pyramid of Need
A tool to help know when to use the Integrated Working tools
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Service Directory
Integrated Working Guidance & Training
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