Good practice in Lewisham: The multi-agency planning pathway (MAPP)

Ann Wallace

In this article Ann Wallace describes the Lewisham MAPP team’s journey over the last three years in developing their own way of putting the idea of ‘working together’ into practice, describes the rationale and principles of the MAPP process, and shows some of the learning they have experienced on their journey.

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An Alphabet of Helpful Hints: A

For new practitioners offering family-centred support to children with disabilities / special needs

Peter Limbrick

This will be a regular feature in IQJ. The alphabet will cover issues which have arisen repeatedly in my consultancy and training work over the last 12 years. The suggestions humbly offered here come from my experience as a sibling of a man with severe cerebral palsy...

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The TAC (team around the child) approach for assessment of needs within a local multi-agency integrated pathway

Peter Limbrick

The Interconnections Manual 'An Integrated Pathway for Assessment and Support for children with complex needs and their families' (Limbrick, 2003) describes how health, education, social services and the voluntary/private sector can work together to provide children who have complex needs and their families with an effective service.

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If it’s not everyone, it’s not inclusion: When a child is vulnerable to being seen as different because of disfigurement, everyone needs to be involved in promoting inclusion at school

Jane Francis

At Changing Faces we work with children and young people who have conditions, injuries or illness that affect the way they look, and with their families and their schools. If we want schools and life after school to become more and more accessible and inclusive then schools have a vital job to do in enabling everyone to be more comfortable and confident around disfigurement and disability.