The Keyworker: a practical guide. The best possible starting point for anyone thinking about providing a keyworker service to service users in any country
By Gudrun Limbrick-Spencer. This Guide came from a voluntary organisation initiative in the UK to explore and validate the keyworker model for families whose new baby had or might have neurological impairment.
Written in the voices of both parents and keyworkers, the Guide covers the range of potential keyworker functions from:
- providing emotional support at the person-to-person level
- through helping parents secure, understand and respond to all available information
- to generating a TAC approach around the child when necessary.
A clear message from The Keyworker: a practical guide, is that effective keyworking is a human function between two people dependant on relationship and empathy. As such, keyworking can never be reduced to a bureaucratic exercise.
Written in 2001, The Keyworker remains thoroughly up to date. It can be read in conjunction with the 2014 Developing Key Working and the 2012 Horizontal Teamwork in a Vertical World: Exploring interagency collaboration and people empowerment.
The latter book discusses keyworker/TAC support for any service user of any age or need who would benefit from a joined-up approach. It emphasises empowerment of service users.
The Keyworker: a practical guide. Available from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. at £20 inc. p&p (UK). Please apply for cost to other countries.
See: http://www.teamaroundthechild.com/allnews/publications/351-the-keyworker-a-practical-guide.html
Developing Key Working: http://www.teamaroundthechild.com/allnews/publications/1522-guide-to-developing-key-working.html
Horizontal Teamwork in a Vertical World. Available from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. at £16.95 inc. p&p (UK). Please apply for cost to other countries.
See: http://www.teamaroundthechild.com/bookshop/horizontal-teamwork-in-a-vertical-world.html
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