ABSTRACT
The practitioners in the Learning in and for Interagency Working (LIW) study adjusted how they operated to fit with the service configurations that were going on around them while keeping focused on their work with children and their families. These adjustments reshaped their practices and their professional decision-making. Our aim was to capture the ideas that were being developed in these reshaped practices in order to make them visible, to share them and to subject them to scrutiny. Of course, the reshaped practices also had the potential to contribute to a reshaping of the organisational settings in which they were occurring, as revised practices often revealed contradictions between what was needed to accomplish inter-professional work and what the organisation was set up to do. In this chapter we focus on the ideas that were being developed and look at organisational implications in the chapters that follow.
