Practitioners report that training alongside other organisations is of
the key factors in making multi-agency working a success. It means that
opportunities are built in for staff from different backgrounds to get to know
each other, co-operate, discuss, and make joint decisions.
This is not a standardising process, but one that helps each person appreciate the different contributions they can make to meet their common goals.
The Local Safeguarding Children Partnership (LSCP) recognises the importance of:
- Giving practitioners an opportunity to learn together.
- Developing awareness of the broader remit of the LSCP in safeguarding the children of West Sussex.
- Ensuring knowledge is up to
date and practice is effective around the protection of children of West Sussex
Inter-agency training within West Sussex helps us develop and foster a shared understanding of the local arrangements for safeguarding children and promoting their welfare. These include:
- Tasks
- Processes
- Principles
- Roles
- Responsibilities.
It also helps us all to:
- Co-ordinate our services - strategically and individually
- Improve our communication - giving us a common understanding of key terms, definitions and thresholds for action
- Work effectively together - while respecting and understanding the role and contribution of each different agency
- Make sound decisions - based upon the information we share, thorough assessment, critical analysis and professional judgement.
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This whole day course is for professionals from all agencies who work with children, young people, their parents and carers.
It focusses on Child Neglect and how the multi-agency network should respond to it