A4: The Need for Joined-Up Working With Other Service Providers

Question 1

What is important if a service user is known and treated by a number of different agencies or teams?

Answer 1

if a service user is known and treated by a number of different agencies or teams it is important that these teams can work together effectively as a team

Question 2

There have been a number of high-profile cases recently of…

Answer 2

there have been a number of high-profile cases recently of child abuse where teams of different services have not worked together to share information

Question 3

What made the situations worse in the high-profile cases of child abuse?

Answer 3

the lack of ‘joined-up working’ between professionals working with these children and the not passing on of crucial information made the situations worse