Evaluation of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Pathfinder Programme Thematic Report: Collaborative working with social care
The authors interviewed professionals from the areas of social care and health that had been involved with the SEND Pathfinder programme on their experiences of collaborative working.
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Theme: Strategic partnership working/leadership and governance
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Strength: Good
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Breadth of Impact: Robust
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Status: Quality Assured
The authors interviewed professionals from the areas of social care and health that had been involved with the SEND Pathfinder programme on their experiences of collaborative working.
They found that mechanisms that support collaborative working are: developing a multi-agency service, joint commissioning; social care professionals’ involvement in development and delivery Pathfinder; and multi-agency training and support.
This grey literature was appraised using a validated checklist. The AACODS checklist provides guidance when dealing with diverse formats of grey literature (Tyndall, 2010). AACODS includes the following items: Authority (who is responsible for the intellectual content) – Accuracy – Coverage (parameters which define the content coverage i.e., reference to a particular population group, or certain type of publication) – Objectivity (identify bias, if it is unstated or unacknowledged) – Date (that confirms relevance of information)- Significance (value judgment in the context of the relevant research area). The checklist can be used for any discipline area and prioritises expert opinion and expertise over source format (Tyndall, 2010).