Inter-agency coordination of services for families

To enable parents to promote the home learning environment and to sustain the long-term beneficial effects of early education, a system of comprehensive services is relevant to be in place to reach out to parents, and provide them with support.

ISOTIS has the objective of collecting research evidence and expert knowledge on best practice regarding inter-agency coordination and local governance of comprehensive inter-sectoral support services for culturally and linguistically diverse children, families and communities. To achieve this objective, our team proposes to:

– Gather information on the factors that are found to determine coordination, collaboration and integration of multiple services.
– Select promising approaches for in-depth studies, in order to illuminate processes leading to successful inter-agency working.
– Interview service providers, service coordinators and policy representatives, to identify key features of successful inter-agency working, facilitators and barriers.
– Integrate findings from ISOTIS studies to establish a comprehensive overview of inter-agency working and the relations with experiences of parents and (para)professionals.

ISOTIS expects to contribute to improve the out-reach and coordination of services for children and families, by providing recommendations for future European developments in this field.

Read ISOTIS PUBLICATIONS on inter-agency coordination

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