a case study of a specific relationship between your placement organisation (A primary school) and a partner agency.(PARTNERSHIP PROVIDES COVER SUPPLY TEACHERS)

I am studying a BA honors in working with children young people and families so my case study work needs to meet this degrees requirements. I am an undergraduate student so I would like you to use simple straightforward English as an undergraduate student. Also can you please use ‘English’ references and ‘English’ words in my assignment not ‘American’ please. Even though choose an English writer to do my work this seems to be the case all the time and me telling you now will save me from giving it back to you and getting it done again. Also I did not know whether to choose a education writer or sociology but I have picked education if this cannot be done feel free to change it to a sociology writer. As my degree is quite broad in different topics.
This assignment is a case study of a specific relationship between my placement organisation and a partner agency. My placement was at a primary school and the agency that was in partnership with it was ITN Education which is a agency that works with the primary school and supplies it with supply and cover teachers. I have attached notes about this agency which you will find. Also I have used other names in my assignment for this school and agency as for confidential issues. I have done introduction to give u a head start to complete my work for me and I have also attached the plan which you need to follow as a step to step guidance. Please read the lecture notes and include the policies, theories, and legislation, partnership models which will link and please include them. Can you please also use the reading list for research and other English references please.
? This is a reflective case study i.e reflecting on an aspect of partnership working. It is an academic piece of work so therefore you MUST use references to back up your findings/observations.
? NB: This is NOT a case study of services around a child/family. It is not an individual case study.
? Also you will not have to talk much about the school and the agency history because I have already done that in the introduction. However you will have to talk about the partnership of my work placement school with the agency which supplies it with cover teachers following it with the plan I provide you with using the lecture notes and reading.
Introduction which I have started for a head start: this is also attached with more points.. Feel free to change the introduction if it as any mistakes or needs anything else included in it.
This case study identifies the concepts of working in partnership and examines the level of its responsibilities. The case study highlights the partnership between the professionals from a primary school and an agency that operates in the event of staff absence. The analysis are based on a primary school which works for the public sector and the agency that is a limited company. My placement took place at Twinkle primary school which is a very large school that had opened in 1984, was set up by the Birmingham local authority and has 1085 pupils attending. The school follows the government requirements with the participation from local education department and is registered with Ofsted. Twinkle primary school and Shirley education have been in partnership for eight years. Also Shirley Education is one of the UK’s largest agencies that has been established in 1999 which specializes in education recruitment for teachers, SEN specialists, nursery and support staff into schools and nurseries by providing unique quality of services. However Shirley Education provides cover supply teachers to Twinkle primary school such as professional QTS teachers and teaching assistants due to emergencies to support pupils and other staff at that period of time. I have chosen focus on a primary schools and this agency which work together because both organisations work within the greatest interest of children. For this reason the analysis of the case study will help me reflect efficiently both settings through identifying were the core values of the organisational, personal, professional have played a role within this partnership working aspect as well as examining and showing understanding towards between core values. Hobert and Frankel (2002, p.5) that placement is basis of which to examine efficient practice in service, also by becoming aware of its role. As a result, having such opportunities can be very advantageous in terms of analysing strengths and weaknesses for future reference. Following this idea, this case study will identify the public and volunteer sectors of service providers. Furthermore, the analysis of the concepts relating to the two organisations working in partnership and a reflection of what could be done differently that helps to promote education and care system in key stage two setting will conclude an important conclusion.
Then follow this plan: which is also attached.
CS614 Working in Partnership
Reflective Case Study Guidance/Template

Remember:

• This assignment is a 2500 word reflective case study which should focus on one example of partnership working within your placement setting.
• This component is an academic piece of writing, and you need to draw on existing sources including academic texts and research.
• You do, therefore, need to reference your work throughout and include a reference list at the end.
• We strongly recommend that you keep a reflective journal throughout your placement, and that you use the journal as a tool to help you reflect on your partnership working case study.
• You must not use the real names of any organisations or individuals in your essay. Please use pseudonyms (alternative names). Guidance about how to reference when using pseudonyms is available on the Library referencing guidelines.

A suggested essay structure:

Introduction: Set the context for your case study.
Briefly introduce your placement setting.
Briefly introduce the case study.
Explain why this case study has been selected and how you will approach the analysis.

Core Text: Briefly provide information about the partnership:
Who is involved? Why are they involved? How long has the partnership existed? What are they trying to do? Why?
Explore whether or not the partnership is effective – this is the key part of your analysis. Some key questions to think about:
o What helps the partnership to do what it wants to do?
o What gets in the way and why?
o What have the advantages been and why?
o What have the disadvantages been and why?
o How could the partnership be improved and why?
o What could be done differently and why?
What does this case study tell you about partnership working in practice?
Conclusion: Summarise what your essay has said.
What key points can you make about partnership working?
What are the implications for practitioners attempting to work in partnership?

Other things to include in the case study. use the lecture notes they will help you answer all this along with the reading list.
Partnership: (Qualities of partnership in a work place)
Communication: same goal
Compromise: talking to each other
Being supportive: help to achieve a goal or an aspiration.
respect: feelings, belief, respecting someone’s feelings even if you disagree with their belief. The values some has. Respect is gained by how you talk and interact with colleagues.
Trust: investment, accepting support, underties compromise and respect. Don’t feel threatened on your own. Someone has the same set of requirements as you have.
Actions and expectations: (Precommend): Understand through our emotions, learned from your own values. Trust
A set of Skills that you have to be aware of and build to be successful (Consciously)
Partnership takes time to build and time to build trust.
Use models in case study: these models are more in depth in the lecture notes under the ‘working in partnership, what it is and how we recognise it’ PowerPoint.
Must include and link them to case study how they work in the partnership. Also to then critique everything. Also critique the levels of partnership..
Frost 2005 levels of partnership
Level one: co operation
Level two: collaboration
Level three: co ordination
Level four: merger/integration
No partnership – uncoordinated/ free standing
Not all partnerships are the same. They have different levels of commitments. (Theory of depth)
What level are they operating?
The levels need to be included in the case study.
Collaboration, common strategy, joint monitoring and evaluation. Joint planning, information sharing and communication. Who is in this partnership their roles should be included in the case study.
Ladder of partnership (Percy Smith 2005) This model needs to be critically analysed
Information exchange, planning action, implementing projects and service plans, co ordination and co operation in practise. Collaboration and full partnership. Approach this model with an critical analysis.
Formal and Informal models: look at lecture notes these questions should be addressed
• Partnership working sounds like common sense and often feels like it should be common sense but often doesn’t work. Why? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the approach? What are the barriers?
• How does the voice of the ‘user of services’ or ‘the community’ get heard? Are they part of the partnership?
• What part does politics play in all of this – does the identity of the government change our ideas about partnership working?
Organisational process, what helps? why does this partnership exist..
What gets in the way?
What helps?
Benefits of partnership working?
Include changes in how we deliver services have been driven by public changes in political ideas or changing public attitudes. Include the theory and law which links with the case study. You will find this the power point notes named under ‘statutory, voluntary and private sectors’.
Make sure you talk include empowerment as this is the key point in the case study and you will find notes on his in the lecture slides. The PowerPoint named ‘multi agency and partnership working engaging wit community’
What are the issues in relation to working with children?
Book and readings:
Inter professional and inter personal level. Gender, age, class, race. (Lupton e al 2001)
Lack of confidence and knowledge or status. (Brandon et al 2008 p5)
Include policies and legislations which are put in place which ate included in the lecture notes.
Include in case study
Understanding professional identity, National context, policy, training, broader social attitudes, values and local context setting.
Criticize were partnership does not work and state how to make it better.
What gets in the way?
There are several issues that can get in the way of this type of partnership such as having teachers having poor communication with supply teachers from the agency can lead to

 

 

 

 
? Teamwork informal models of partnership
? Partnership working
? Collaboration
? Co-operation
? Co-ordination
? Empowerment
? Joint working / planning
? Shared working
? integration

COMMUNICATION
INFORMATION SHARING
JOINT PLANNING
COMMON STRATEGY
COLLABORATION
JOINT MONITORING &
EVALUATION

And what gets in the way:
• Issues of power/status/hierarchies
• Lack of trust
• Lack of understanding of other agencies
• Different professional priorities and beliefs/cultures
Competing priorities

 

• Trained professionals work on behalf of ‘community’ to improve their circumstances.
• Issues might include any combination of social, economic or environmental issues.

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communication trust being supportive respect
actions and expectations

levels of partnership frost 2005 (levels of commitment) ladder model critically analyse
co operation collaboration co ordination
merger and interaction what level are they operating?
who is in the partnership and roles should be included?

Reading list:
Baguley,P. [2003] Teams and team-working Reading: Teach Yourself Books
Balloch, S. & Taylor, M. [2001] Partnership Working Bristol : Policy Press
Douglas, A. [2008] Partnership Working London : Routledge
Gilchrist, A. [2004] The well-connected community : a networking approach to community development Bristol : Policy Press
Peck, E. & Dickenson, H. [2008] Managing and leading in inter-agency settings Bristol :Policy Press

Atkinson, M. (2002) Multi-agency Working: A Detailed Study (LGA Research), London, NFER
Children Act (2004). Crown copyright
Katzenbach, J & Smith, D. [1993] The wisdom of teams Boston : Harvard Business School
Glasby, J. & Dickenson, H. [2008] Partnership Working in Health and Social Care Bristol: Policy Press
Somerville, P. [2011] Understanding community Bristol : Policy Press

 

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