“Great opportunity to get to know my colleagues in protected space and time” (Sam Parker, Community Development Officer)
“The overall impression was of a well thought out, prepared and planned session.” (Vikki Jervis, Senior Psychologist)
Multi-agency Team Development (MATD) Programme
This challenging programme develops effective integrated team working:
Enhanced understanding of partners' activities
Increasing trust between staff
Improved links and communication reducing duplication of effort
Increasing effectiveness of multi agency teams within and beyond professional settings
Accelerating integrated service provision
Enhancing team leadership
Building capacity for multi-agency working throughout the LA/locality/school/service and beyond
"Brought the team together and helped see a notion for future working." Valerie Hill, Children and Young People's Services
Individual participants gain:
A higher level of satisfaction
A sense of liberation as organisations work beyond traditional bureaucratic and cultural restraints
Increased flexibility and enhanced career development opportunities
The Local Authority or sponsoring agency will benefit from:
Improvements in staff retention, recruitment and workload
Creation of opportunities for enhanced partnership working with other agencies and the wider community
Multi agency work can be challenging and invariably involves change
The Best Practice Network MATD programme empowers teams to develop and shape their practice according to their specific contexts. Think of a kaleidoscope - as one individual component moves and changes,
so the whole pattern is transformed into something quite different from before. The outcomes for participants may be radical new configurations or practices but they are owned and developed by the teams themselves, thereby maximising their potential for sustainability.