Multidisciplinary Teams

Furthermore, multi-disciplinary teams also need to be constantly reflecting for the benefit of the child as they have many roles and responsibilities. Multidisciplinary teams are a professional group of people who all share a common goal, some of these may include people who work together in the school setting, for example, social workers, teachers and psychiatrists, health visitors and the Team Around the Child. Communication between these teams is fundamental because it firstly ensures the child has the best opportunities and support made especially for the child in an efficient manner, yet most importantly it ensures that deaths like Victoria Climbié are dealt with. Victoria Climbié’s death encouraged a huge appraisal led by Lord Laming.

Each member of the multidisciplinary group is responsible for delivering different activities, they also need to be responsible for supporting the families and services that they may need. Furthermore, one of the most important roles in all different multidisciplinary groups is too keep the privacy within the team, this argues that all information received including individual and private information. However, a barrier that may affect this could potentially result in confidentiality issues. Further responsibilities from multi-disciplinary teams include helping the parents and families they also encourage originality and individuality in a team, one of the main responsibilities is to improve the life of the children and young people, for example, a social worker’s role is to act as a child’s associate and friend whilst being able to deal with complicated issues. The roles in multi-agencies can also include, supporting children and young people who are less fortunate so they can improve their well-being and life chances, instances, like assessing the child’s behaviour and reporting back to the families and parents, is essential especially as a one to one worker, A one to one worker’s responsibilities is to be both understanding and supportive with the child (Manthorpe, 2008). A one to one worker has a friendly yet mature role, the adult is able to improve their learning. Like many multi-disciplinary teams the main responsibility is simply to provide a safe space for the child to develop, listen to child and support both the parents and the child’s needs, even with children who have additional learning needs, A SENCO is a Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator and there are multiple roles and responsibilities that they have. They support children with additional learning needs, they are there to offer expert direction to staff.