Promoting inter‐agency collaborátion in child services
- 1 November 1993
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Child: Care, Health and Development
- Vol. 19 (6) , 355-367
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2214.1993.tb00741.x
Abstract
Effective collaboration between agencies is often difficult to achieve. Children and their families/carers, who have complex therapeutic needs, present particular difficulties in that agencies need to work together, if they are to produce a co-ordinated and integrated package of care. A Multi-Agency-Consultation-Team (MACT) was set up in an attempt to overcome some of these problems of inter-agency co-operation. This paper describes the protocol, types of children referred and the recommendations made by the team. Follow-up of these children at 4 months suggests that a MACT does have a role to play in developing high quality services.Keywords
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