childcare-working in partnership unit 5 This is about professionals working with each other as well as with families. This professions can be social workers or polices.

1. Unit 5
Understand how to work in
partnership

2. Unit 5
Understand how to work in partnership
By the end of this unit you will:
• Understand how to work in partnership
• Understand ways of developing and
sustaining partnerships with carers
• Identify policies and procedures for
information sharing in the work setting

3. STARTER:
• Identify one spelling
mistake from the learning
outcome
• Give 2 examples of key
words used for this unit

4. Re-cap
Barriers to partnership working
Barriers
Not knowing
when and how to
share information
Communication
problems, such
as specialist
terminology,
acronyms
Lack of
understanding
about how other
agencies operate
Feeling threatened
by new approaches –
‘out of comfort zone’
Lack of support – not
knowing who to
contact for advice and
support

5. Professionals working with
families
Speech & Language
Therapist
Work to improve
communication
Health Visitors
Provide families with specific support around health areas of concern
Social Workers
Aim to provide co-
ordinated service to
families who have a
range of issues.
Family Support
Worker
To provide care,
support and plan
for individual key
children.
Area Senco
Supporting setting with
a child displaying
challenging behaviour
(creating ILP’s)

6. Partnership working
• Partnership working aims to keep children and young
people and their families at the centre of decision-
making so that needs are met and lives improved. This
can be achieved by:
• Information sharing – knowing when and how to
share information
• Early intervention – early identification of unmet
needs
• Common assessment processes – identification of
the need for an assessment and, with consent, an
assessment of the child/young person being carried
out.

7. Ways of developing and sustaining
partnerships with carers
• Carers should be made to feel welcome in the setting.
• Carers to be greeted by name.
• Practitioners could wear name badges so that carers know
who they are.
• Setting could have a notice board with staff names and
photographs.

8. GROUP ACTIVITY
DISCUSS AND DECIDE IF YOU AGREE OR
DISAGREE WITH THE STATEMENT AND
THEIR REASONS WHY.
YOU NEED TO SHARE SOME OF THE
RESPONSES WITH THE WHOLE CLASS.

9. Policies and procedures for information
sharing in the work setting
• Every setting should have policies and procedures that
encourage effective and clear communication when
sharing information.
• All policies should be available to interested parties and
shared with colleagues, parents, carers and other
settings and services.
Policy
on
informationsharing
Where is your policy?
For this Task, you need to identify the policies and
procedures in your work setting that include
details of information sharing.
Ask to see these policies and take down details of:
 the title of the policy
 the details about the procedures for sharing information.

10. Storing information
• Every setting must provide clear policies and procedures
about the recording and storing of information.
• Anyone who keeps records, whether on computer or paper,
should comply with the Data Protection Act 1998.
• Information should not be kept for longer than is necessary.
• Records should be securely stored.
Home-work– Write about how communications are recorded and
how records are securely stored in your work setting.

11. Unit 5
Understand how to work in partnership
By the end of this unit you will:
• Understand how to work in partnership
• Understand ways of developing and
sustaining partnerships with carers
• Identify policies and procedures for
information sharing in the work setting

12. ANY QUESTION?
EVIDENCE METHOD FOR
ASSIGNMENT:
AN INFORMATION BOOKLET.
ASSIGNMENT DUE DATE: 24/02/2016