eLearning: Interprofessional and inter-agency collaboration (IPIAC)

Published: 2009

These elearning resources are freely available to all. They provide audio, video and interactive technology to assist in exploring the nature of interprofessional and inter-agency collaboration and in improving collaborative practice.

	An introduction to interprofessional and inter-agency collaboration The nature of collaboration, why it is important, its purposes and its growing place in policy and practice View elearning resource View text-only version Download SCORM compliant version Learning record
	Professional identity and collaboration Professional identities and difference, models of practice and ways of sustaining one’s identity and practice within collaborative relationships. View elearning resource View text-only version Download SCORM compliant version Learning record
	Building relationships, establishing trust and negotiating with other workers Making initial contact, developing relationships, trust, values, conflict, barriers, self-assessment View elearning resource View text-only version Download SCORM compliant version Learning record
	Working together to assess needs, strengths and risks What is assessment, and it’s importance; considering the contributions of other professionals when undertaking an assessment; balancing needs, strengths and risks using a family scenario and their neighbourhood networks. View elearning resource View text-only version Download SCORM compliant version Learning record
	A model of practice and collaboration The multiple spheres of practice and collaboration - interpersonal, interprofessional, inter-disciplinary team, inter-agency and community –explored using a ‘model’ and people’s experiences View elearning resource View text-only version Download SCORM compliant version Learning record
	Working collaboratively in different types of teams Types of teams, networks, organisations, images, group and team development, roles View elearning resource View text-only version Download SCORM compliant version Learning record
	The practitioner, the agency and inter-agency collaboration How agencies shape professional roles and supply key resources, the interdependence of agencies and professionals, and the importance of inter-agency collaboration in supporting and safeguarding service users View elearning resource View text-only version Download SCORM compliant version Learning record
	Key policy and legislation with implications for interprofessional and inter-agency collaboration A timeline of collaboration-related policy, commissioned reports and legislation in England and Wales with additional examples relating to people who use care services and to carers View elearning resource There is no text only version available for this resource There is no SCORM version available for this resource Learning record

• Who is this resource suitable forOpen

  These resources are suitable for students studying for the social work degree and post-qualifying awards, educators, and practitioners in social work and social care. The resources may also be useful to practitioners and students from other disciplines and may interest people who use social care services and carers who are not directly involved as educators.

• The authorsOpen

  Colin Whittington

  Colin Whittington is a partner in whittingtonconsultants.co.uk. Clients include local and national organisations (DH, SCIE, CAIPE UK) and individual managers and professionals. He researched interprofessional and inter-agency learning for his PhD and wrote the partnership component of the first national training strategy for social care. He has published widely in this area and others, such as assessment for SCIE Guide 18 (2007). A registered social worker with experience as a practitioner, team manager and teacher, he has held fellowships at Keele University and King’s College London and senior positions in social work education and research. His consultancy includes collaborative practice, inter-agency partnership, educational research and individual mentoring.

  Judith Thomas

  Judith Thomas is a Principal Lecturer at the University of the West of England, Bristol. She has managed various educational developments including the BSc (Hons) Social Work and Post Qualifying Programmes in practice education. Judith is a co-editor of Interprofessional Working in Health and Social Care and also of Understanding Interprofessional Working in Health and Social Care: Theory and Practice both published by Palgrave. Judith is a qualified and registered social worker. As a practitioner, she has worked in residential child care, community care, mental health and staff development. Her particular educational and research interests are in practice learning, interprofessional learning and working and the education of critically reflective practitioners.

  Anne Quinney

  Anne Quinney is a Senior Lecturer at Bournemouth University and teaches on the BA (Hons) Social Work degree. She is the author of Collaborative Social Work Practice, published by Learning Matters, and is the Editor of the Routledge/BASW journal Practice: social work in action. Anne is a qualified and registered social worker. As a social work practitioner she has worked in the areas of mental health and child care and has also practised as a youth worker. Anne’s research areas are collaborative practice, interprofessional education, elearning, and research-minded practice.

• AcknowledgementsOpen

  SCIE would like to thank the following people:

  • Our peer reviewers: June Sadd, Anne Farmer, Tony Leiba and Mark Lymbery.
  • Margaret Whittington of whittingtonconsultants.co.uk for contributions to several resources in this IPIAC series and for co-authoring the Key Policy and Legislation timeline.

• Technical developmentOpen

  Programming and graphic design by Cimex Ltd.

• SCORM Compliant versionOpen

  If you are a member of staff from a Higher Education institution who would like to download the activity for use in a virtual learning environment (VLE),such as WebCT, Blackboard or Moodle you should use the SCORM compliant version above.

  Please note that this resource was not designed to export any scores or track progress throughout the resource. Therefore, this resource can be imported into a virtual learning environment and freely accessed by users, but there will be no tracking or grading functionality.

• AccessibilityOpen

  This elearning resource has been designed to be accessible to the widest audience possible and reviewed for compliance to accessibility standards by the Digital Media Access Group at the University of Dundee. This page lists some of the features used to make the resources easier to use. If you are experiencing problems using the resources, or have any questions and comments about their accessibility, please let us know.

  Using the resources without a mouse

  All materials have been designed to be accessible using the keyboard. Use the Tab key to access navigational elements such as buttons and interactive diagrams. Pop-up windows with scroll bars can be accessed with the tab key, with the scroll-bar being operable via the up and down arrow keys.

  Changing the appearance of the resources

  If you need to adjust the way the resources appear, a Text Only version has been provided for each resource, allowing you to make changes to the resource's appearance through your browser. For example, you can use your browser to make the text larger, or change the font or colour of the text to suit your personal preferences. For more help on how to do this, visit the BBC's My Web My Way website

  Accessing the resources with a screen reader

  All resources have a narration of the main text. However if you use a screen reader, we recommend using the Text Only version for each resource. These provide broadly the same information and experience as the Flash version, but currently the nature of some features of the Flash resources mean that these features do not work as required in a screen reader

• CopyrightOpen

  All material in these elearning resources, including text, graphics, photographs, video and audio is copyright of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Use of these resources for educational purposes is freely permitted, but commercial use of these resources or any modification to the resources is not permitted without prior authorisation by SCIE.

• Images and audioOpen

  The majority of the images and voices used in this resource are those of actors.  This approach has been adopted to protect the identities of the service users and carers whose accounts have been drawn upon or the accounts have been based on situations indicative of the events or issues being covered.

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