--- vulnerable service users have no voice or power in vertical hierarchies ---
Horizontal Teamwork in a Vertical World: Exploring interagency collaboration and people empowerment
By Peter Limbrick. 2012.
From back cover:
We have constant reminders of how hospitals, schools, care
Read more: How to promote horizontal teamwork and empower service users
--- multiagency, multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary ---
New book: Integration Made Possible
A practical manual for joint working
By Peter Limbrick 2020
From the Introduction
“This Manual takes the widest possible interpretation of integration from joint working between the major
Read more: How to integrate health, education and social care
--- it comes down to a matter of survival. ‘We will surely die if we stay here so...’ ---
Editorial: There is an imbalance in the world with interconnected factors including climate change, disparities in income levels, access to water, availability of land for growing food, acces
Have they not understood the science about trees and climate change?
Editorial: There are three news items here from US, Russia and France. The first is symptomatic of the obsession with gadgets and how long gone are the days when we tried to protect ourselves and our environments from radiat
A guide to help professionals support parents in bringing up their child
Bringing up babies and young children who have very special needs: A 21st century guide for parents, students and new practitioners
By Peter Limbrick. 2019.
A recent review. Extract: “The book is particularly useful for parents
Read more: How to bring up babies and young children who have very special needs
...parents are denied a voice and service managers lose the grounding and dynamism that parents would have brought to the table...
Quoting from the Introduction:
“TAC (the Team Around the Child model) has been designed to meet the particular support needs of babies and young children who have
“Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
The article begins:
“I feel like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz when she awakens and finds herself in a whole new wor
Read more: Opinion: Health at the end of a needle. By Walter Graham
“Virtual TAC meetings appear to have many benefits, hence it is worth considering their place in future service provision”
COVID-19 has dramatically changed how we work and deliver services to families. Overnight, professionals and parents had to learn how to navigate IT systems previously unknown.
Read more: TAC (Team Around the Child) meetings in the ‘new’ virtual world
Cartoon © Martina Jirankova-Limbrick 2011