ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the experience of a local multi-agency team established in anticipation of government legislation aimed at achieving better outcomes for children and young people by ensuring all organizations and practitioners providing services to children, such as schools, social workers, and health professionals, worked together in a more effective way. When new territories of therapeutic conversation are being entered into, it can take considerable time to become familiar with such territories and to become proficient in the skills associated with the explorations. Multi-agency working would broaden each practitioner’s approach to include a more holistic, richer picture of child and family needs and strengths. The establishment of a locality-based multi-agency team was the key initiative within the GO Project. To provide a sound evidence base for GO Multi-Agency Team practice, a literature review on multi-agency working was undertaken prior to the commencement of the team’s direct work.
