Multi Agency Teams Advantages And Disadvantages

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This essay will be focusing on Multi-agency teams, which is a service of different professionals from different working areas that join up and work together as part of one team that provides support for a child, young person or families. It will be looking at the advantages and disadvantages that multi-agency teams can have when working together and the effects of this.


Multi agency teams have been working together as early as the 19th century, since then many legislations and policy documents have been put in place over the years up to this current day.
The government’s vision is for a health, Social and education service, where individuals and groups of individuals from various services provide work more closely together to meet the …show more content…

This will then add on more pressure for the professionals as funding is an essential to provide a service to people and will also affect the quality of service given. However in contrast to this there has been evidence to show that agencies joining up and working together had a higher chance to get funded, through joint funding arrangements rather than getting funded alone.
Improved access to funding and resources at strategic level (noted by over one-sixth) was also considered a benefit. Interviews highlighted, for example, that joint working enabled them to bid for funding which they might otherwise not be able to access because multi-agency involvement was a requirement for the bid. (Source: Telephone interviews in Phase one of the NFER study, 20000. p29).
People’s personal ethnic culture, personal belief and opinions can have an effect on the work they do as they may feel like something isn’t right, or they believe strongly towards or against something. As well as this, people’s attitudes can also have an effect on work itself due to something such as wages received. They may not feel like what one is gaining isn’t fair to what they are personally earning and this can cause people to slack or feel like they are being treated …show more content…

So multi-agency work has become more expanded and the care has become greater available to more families and young children and for them to be heard more. You can see some useful information of positive outcomes from multi-agency work, such as a speeded up process, more policy and procedures and you can see there are clear aims to help the working methods for the professionals to follow.
However there is still a massive gap in multi-agency work for improvement which needs to be looked within a few areas. As we can still see that each agency involved are not receiving the correct training to be able to work well and integrate with other professionals to create an overall better service and care. We don’t know how the training is received and the true outcomes of it and how it will cooperate with other professionals.
I also feel that there is not enough evidence to show the true results of Multi-agency teams when working together and the full potential it has, but we can see clear positive aims as well as a more negative side of areas not being dealt with or shown to have much

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