1) Introduction to the suite of products
The outcome of the incubator is a suite of products: a range of documents designed to be used by colleagues in both Local Authorities and in local Health organisations as they work towards their shared targets. An overview of what is contained in the product suite is attached.
2) Health and Children's Centres Interdependencies
A planning product to demonstrate the benefits of Health involvement in Children’s Centres, which shows how closely Department of Health and Children’s Centres objectives are aligned and allows you to plan how you will work locally to achieve these objectives.
Excel version of the health outcomes matrix
(open the document, click save as, save to your desktop and utilise.)
3) Overcoming the Barriers
An overview of the key things we need to do to overcome the barriers and make our joint working a success, which summarises essential actions that show how you could put this into practice…
4) Accessing the right people
A product to help you to identify who you might need to engage with to further your integration of Health and Children’s Centres in your area. This product provides an illustration of the organisational structures that make up Children’s Services and local Health structures along with some accompanying explanations…
5) Engaging in the right way at the right time
A product to assist you in planning your Children’s Centre which shows you when to engage in the right way - highlighting the activities that should involve joint LA/Health working at each stage of the Four Stages to Developing a Children’s Centre.
6) Successful joint working
A product which offers some suggested principles for joint working, as proposed by a joint health/Local Authority working group. They are offered as a starter for 10 which you can use and develop locally. Each principle is accompanied by examples of existing effective practice which you can adapt to your local context.
7) Hearing from others
Interviews with practitioners which explore both barriers to successful joint working, and which identify areas of excellent practice that exist already.
8) Where to read more
An index of further reading or viewing on Health and Local Authority joint working.
9) The complete set of tools
Click here to download the entire suite of products in PDF – please note that the hyperlinks in section 6 may not work so it is advisable to download section 6 as a word document.