This title comes with downloadable electronic resources. Offering practical advice & guidance on how to establish & maintain effective multi-agency partnership working in your setting this book will tell you how to meet the Every Child Matters outcomes for children & young people. It clarifies the skills & knowledge required in order to form productive partnerships & shows you how to set up & maintain good collaborative practice. The following are provided: useful checklists; examples of best practice in multi-agency working; a range of activities to support team building; reflective questions to facilitate training & improvement; practical tools for evaluating the impact of multi-agency working; & photocopiable materials to use with each chapter of the book. It is an invaluable resource for leaders & managers in any early years setting Childrens Centre primary secondary or special school or Pupil Referral Unit & will support anyone responsible for coordinating & managing multi-agency partnership working. Lecturers in higher education responsible for training members of the childrens workforce will value this book as well as Local Authority officers & Workforce Remodelling Advisers.