Partnership Working

Effective partnership working is crucial to all public services, and is particularly critical to those providing services for children and young people. The Baby P case demonstrated that a breakdown in partnership working can have tragic consequences.

This book is a valuable and comprehensive guide for students, practitioners, managers and others. It is helpful in our understanding of what partnership working actually means and how we can make it work better to improve people's lives. The author Anthony Douglas is the chief executive of Cafcass and is steeped in personal and professional experience, and has clearly researched the subject extensively. He provides accessible analysis together with practical guidance, and the book would be useful as both a reference title or a cover-to-cover read. I found the key messages at the beginning of each chapter particularly helpful and the real-life stories challenging and thought-provoking.