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Interconnections Worldwide Working internationally to share information, help build knowledge and support teamwork around babies, children and young people who are disabled, marginalised or vulnerable The home of Team Around the Child (TAC) and the Multiagency Keyworker |
Denise Franks
This article looks at the complexities of the transition process in England and how the agencies may struggle to meet the needs of those individual young people who have complex needs and are living into adulthood. Katie is an example of how transition can become complicated by the timing of the deterioration...
Peter Limbrick
'And yet, every time I learn about a parent killing herself and/or her disabled son or daughter, I wonder if they had a keyworker and, if not, if a keyworker might have brought them back from the brink – or halted their progress towards it. This is a big question for me because I have to assume that each desperate parent hitting the headlines is the tip of an iceberg of misery and unmet need...
'This issue of IQJ comes a little late because people who might write for it are under pressure. They are under pressure because there are fewer of them now than there were half a year ago...People in work have more to do and less time for such luxuries as thinking or writing... So my gratitude to the writers of Issue No. 11 is heartfelt. My sincere thanks go to them all.'
Peter Limbrick
The focus in this essay is on how each child's TAC can function in early childhood intervention as the family-owned organisational nucleus – a persisting organisational nucleus that is essential for each child who has a 'multifaceted condition' to keep all separate agencies, services and practitioners working together in an integrated and coherent approach.
Cartoon © Martina Jirankova-Limbrick 2011