The ‘Learning in and for Interagency Working’ (LIW) project has been developed against a background of current government policies concerned with the social inclusion of at-risk children, young people and their families.
These call for effective joined-up responses from professionals. The particular aim of our research is to examine and support the professional learning needed to enable practitioners to work together, across different agencies, in order to help clients take control of their own lives. The study will develop and test a model of work-based learning aimed at encouraging new organisational practices and effecting new forms of flexible, responsive collaboration between professionals.
The success of the LIW project will be strongly dependent upon its close links with practitioners, including educational psychologists, teachers, social workers and school support services. We are determined that the project’s work should have real relevance to practitioners and to policy and that our research should incorporate a reciprocal flow of knowledge between the project team and user communities.
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