Education and social work working collaboratively to support vulnerable families: benefits and tensions

This chapter examines two innovative programmes aimed at improving support and provision for vulnerable families, and promoting their well-being and resilience. It focuses on the benefits, tensions and challenges associated with the inter-agency collaboration, which was central to the two programmes and, arguably, all effective support for vulnerable children, young people and families. After a brief discussion of the term “vulnerable” and inter-agency collaboration, we focus on what our research into the programmes told us about how education and social work professionals collaborate both with each other and (less commonly) with the families with whom they work, both of which are relatively unexplored areas.

Citation

Jopling, M. and Vincent, S. (2020) Education and social work working collaboratively to support vulnerable families: benefits and tensions, in Williams-Brown, Z. and Mander, S. (eds.) Childhood Well-being and Resilience Influences on Educational Outcomes. Abingdon: Routledge.

Type

Chapter in book

Language

en

Description

This is an accepted manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Childhood Well-being and Resilience: Influences on Educational Outcomes on 29/10/2020, available online: https://www.routledge.com/Childhood-Well-being-and-Resilience-Influences-on-Educational-Outcomes/Williams-Brown-Mander/p/book/9780367342432 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.

ISBN

9780429324635

Collections

Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing