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.

For more information email: matd@bestpracticenet.co.uk