Partnership and collaboration

The ability to work collaboratively is one of the most important things that social workers and social care workers learn. When agencies don't collaborate, people who use services and carers are burdened with trying to fill in gaps in communication themselves – if they have the knowledge and resources to do so.

Practice development: collaborative working in social care
SCIE Guide 34
Published: August 2010

Factors that assist early identification of children in need in integrated or inter-agency settings
SCIE Research briefing 27

Interprofessional and inter-agency collaboration (IPIAC)
SCIE e-learning

Learning together to safeguard children: developing a multi-agency systems approach
SCIE Guide 24
Published: October 2008

Learning together to safeguard children: developing a multi-agency systems approach for case reviews
SCIE Report 19

Interprofessional education for qualifying social work
SCIE Other