Childcare: Parent and Parenting Support Worker Essay

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Partnership
It is important to have a holistic approach when all needs are being met. Sometimes children and young people have a number of professionals working with them. It’s important that everyone is working together to achieve the every child matters outcomes which is; being healthy, staying safe, they enjoy and achieve, make a positive contribution and achieve economic wellbeing.
The relevant partners who you would be working with in your setting is the child, parents, carers, support workers, health visitors, speech and language therapist, a parenting support worker, outreach workers, educational psychologists, social workers and colleagues from other classes/schools.
A partnership is an arrangement between two or more groups, organizations or individuals to work together to achieve common aims. * Partnerships usually have the following characteristics … * All the parties involved have some sort of personal stake in the partnership; * All the partners are working towards a common aim; * The partners have a similar ethos or system of beliefs; * The partners work together over a reasonable period of time; * There is agreement amongst the partners that a partnership is necessary; * There is an understanding of the value of what each partner can contribute; * There is respect and trust between the different partners.

Of course there are barriers to partnership working;

* Finding a mutually convenient time and venue to meet * Other demands from family and work * Access and transport for some parents Language, culture and religion * Language barriers (there