Overcoming silo thinking has been a mantra for many years in social work with children and families. At its root is the need to consider the bigger picture when deciding how to deliver the most effective interventions.
Since 2010, children’s services have developed multi-agency hubs to improve safeguarding of children, but there is growing recognition that this alone is not enough to tackle the issues behind child protection problems.
Many of the children on the radar or in the care of local authorities are there as a result of problems with their parents, carers or the wider family. Yet, too much of the work done by children’s services is in isolation, with little or no input from adult social care – and this was the case before the separation of the combined social services departments a decade ago.
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