1.5 Explain Why Partnership Working May Be Difficult In A Multidisciplinary Team

Our partnership policy states that we support parents as their child’s first and important educators by involving them in their child’s education. In our partnership policy statement it states that we refer to ‘parents’ as mothers and fathers, natural or birth parents, step parents, parents who do not live with their child but have contact with the child’s life, same sex parents and foster parents.

Our procedures are we have a means to ensure that all parents are included, consult with parents to find out what works best for them, ensure ongoing communication with parents to improve our knowledge of the child’s needs and to support the family, informing parents about how the setting is run and it’s policies through access to written information
Each person’s personalities may be difficult because some peoples personalities may clash for a number of different reasons but you must remember that you work together to help benefit and give help to the children.

Having different opinions may be difficult because everyone brings a great depth of knowledge and experiences with them. When having different opinions you may feel that you have been able to share your views and ideas with everyone towards the child’s care.

Time and availability may be difficulty because all partnership working colleagues are very busy and it’s hard to put meetings in place. Some partnership working colleagues may find that they are only able to attend the meeting for a limited amount of time because of their busy