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Integrated working

The government supports the Every Child Matters (ECM) principles and integrated working to improve outcomes for all children and young people, but recognises that local areas are developing integrated working practice in different ways. To achieve these outcomes you will need to work effectively with partners and other professionals, exploring new approaches to multi-agency working.

As part of this, you will be offering extended services and working with parents, the community and families. All of this will have implications for your own leadership style and models. With other leaders around you, you will learn how to incorporate all of this into your planning, evaluation and quality assurance methods.

Key to success for impact on vulnerable children is early intervention, formal assessment through CAF (Common Assessment Framework) and working with Team Around the Child (TAC), as well as sharing local data. There is no longer statutory guidance but local practice and agreements will be important.

Multi-agency working is a critical way of working that ensures children and young people who need additional support have exactly the right professionals needed to support them and will take different forms locally.

Find out more about integrated working on the Department for Education website.

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