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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 |
Peter Limbrick with Don Meyer & Jenni Thomas
'Since...the publication of Together From The Start in 2003, there has been an attempt to be more family-centred and this has brought focus, first on parents and then on siblings. Now perhaps it is time for grandparents to come into their own.'
Jenni Thomas
There is nothing more difficult for parents to face than a loss in relation to their child, whatever that loss may encompass. Health care professionals are all taught to help their patients and to try to take pain away but it can be difficult for professionals to come close to these families and witness their pain...
Pamela Bartram
This is a response to Limbrick's writing about the need for a co-ordinated approach to young disabled children and their families. While agreeing with the need for a Team Around the Child approach, it argues that our fragmented activity...serves a psychic purpose; therefore it cannot simply be given up by an act of will...
Cartoon © Martina Jirankova-Limbrick 2011