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Joining up the solutions: the rhetoric and practice of inter‐agency cooperation
Author(s) -
Webb Rosemary,
Vulliamy Graham
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1002/chi.679
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , work (physics) , rhetoric , public relations , relation (database) , sociology , political science , public administration , engineering , social science , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , database , computer science
A three‐year project placed home‐school support workers in secondary schools. The intention was that they should work closely at operational level with other agencies to provide a cohesive local authority response to the needs of disaffected and excluded youngsters. Crucial distinctions emerged between project constraints, possibilities and benefits for agency personnel in the school‐focused agencies and those external to the school. In relation to the external agencies, support workers fulfilled predominantly an information gathering and sharing role whereby they joined up the solutions of disparate agencies, whereas very effective forms of cooperation developed with the school‐focused agencies. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.