Books written by Peter Limbrick

The books in this list have all been written since Peter started supporting families whose baby or preschool child have significant challenges to development and learning. The books accurately reflect all that he has learned from the children, from members of their families, from practioners of all disciplines and from the managers of their local health, education and care services.
The books describe a radical approach to effective joined-up working that is relevant to people at all levels whether they are concerned for children or adults. They are intended to be readable by those who have not had the benefit of university education including practitioners, family members and students. Taken together, the books become a practical manual for people trying to improve local support services or build whole new systems.

Team Around the Child: Multi-agency service co-ordination for children with complex needs and their families
Over recent years the increasing number of children who have multiple and complex disabilities has highlighted the need for new systems of service provision in which health, education, and social services and the voluntary sector join together to offer the child and the family a more co-ordinated approach. Though this need is recognised now in both local and national governments, the call for service co-ordination is not accompanied by practical suggestions of how to achieve it or about what it should look like. This manual describes a practical family-centred approach which provides the child with a co-ordinated service and gives the family more control over service provision.
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Horizontal Teamwork in a Vertical World: Exploring interagency collaboration and people empowerment
Hospitals, schools, care homes, social services, etc. can damage service users by failing to work together. People who run commercial organisations in the industrial world take collaboration in their stride but many managers of public services wrongly assume it is impossible.
As public services are downgraded in many countries to make space for private organisations, a formula for joint working becomes ever more essential. Peter takes up the challenge, contrasting vertical organisations (characterised by top-down power) with the horizontal landscapes that must be cultivated between them. Here skilled leadership replaces hierarchical authority and space is created for the user’s voice to be heard. The essay offers a guide to managers for creating coherent support for the multitude of people who need help from two or more agencies at the same time.
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Integration Made Possible: A practical manual for joint working - multiagency, multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary
Are you passionate about integration? Would you like to see more joint working around adults and children who have special needs? Effective integration between health, education and social care is rare in all countries. Integration projects require skilled leadership by people who are passionate about joint working and committed to help bring about change.
This Manual offers essential help: in understanding issues around integration; in planning projects to promote effective integration for service users; in designing undergraduate courses and academic research projects; in writing grant applications for local projects and research. It brings co-production, person-centred practice and a firm evidence base into new joint working projects.
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An Introduction to Keyworking and Team Around the Child (TAC) in the Horizontal Landscape: Joint working in support of children and adults in need
This essay is an introduction to multiagency keyworking and the TAC system and to their place in the horizontal landscape for service users of any age who require support from two or more agencies or services in the same time period. A remedy is offered to the great dangers of chaos and fragmentation that happen when agencies and the people working in them fail to co-ordinate and collaborate with each other.
The following concepts are explained: The multifaceted condition; Collective competence; The matrix of shared responsibility; The multiagency integrated pathway; The horizontality of interagency collaboration; Three tiers of increasing joint working; Being genuinely user-centred; Being genuinely family-centred when working with children; TAC as an antidote to the additive approach; The primary interventionist; Close collaborative teamwork; Integration of programmes for a whole-person approach.
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Bringing up babies and young children who have very special needs: A 21st century guide for parents, students and new practitioners