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Working together: multi-agency working in services to disabled children with complex health care needs and their families; a literature review
- Authors:
- WATSON Debby, et al
- Publisher:
- Handsel Trust
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 58p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Children with complex health care needs and their families have the same range of needs for services and support as other disabled children. But they also have additional care needs. Almost thirty years of research has consistently shown that families with disabled children would prefer the many agencies that they encounter to work together more effectively. Since 1997, a strong policy emphasis on the importance of ‘joined-up’ working has promoted the benefits of partnerships. In response, many projects and services have been established throughout the UK that aim to implement better joint work whilst improving quality of life for this group of children and their families. There is, however, a notable lack of information about the nature of multi-agency services for children with complex health care needs.