New e-book on Kindle - An Introduction to Keyworking and TAC in the Horizontal Landscape
An Introduction to Keyworking and TAC in the Horizontal Landscape: Joint working in support of children and adults in need
By Peter Limbrick. Published by Interconnections on Kindle. June 2012.
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This essay is offered as an introduction to the multiagency keyworking model and the TAC* System – and to their place in the horizontal landscape for service users of any age who require support from two or more agencies or services in the same time period.
Readers are invited to relate its content to the needs and situations of the service users (babies, children, teenagers, adults or old people) they meet in their work or to categories of service users they belong to themselves or represent in some way.
The appeal, and the solutions offered, are for improved joint working to remedy the great dangers of chaos and fragmentation that happen so commonly when agencies and the people working in them fail to co-ordinate and collaborate with each other.
An Introduction to Keyworking and TAC in the Horizontal Landscape refers to other writing on the subject and explains such concepts as:
- The multifaceted condition
- Collective competence
- The matrix of shared responsibility
- The multiagency integrated pathway
- The horizontality of interagency collaboration
- Three tiers of increasing joint working
- Being genuinely user-centred
- Being genuinely family-centred when working with children
- TAC as an antidote to the additive approach
- The primary interventionist
- Collaborative teamwork
- Integration of programmes for a whole-person approach
* The original TAC stood for Team Around the Child but is more widely used now for other service users who need joint working.
