Reference no: EM133203861
Partnership working can be very complex due to the number of parties involved. There may be multiple agencies, businesses, or organizations involved in a partnership, each with their own objectives, interests, and goals. This can make it difficult to align everyone's goals and objectives and to agree on a common course of action. Partnership working can also be complex due to the differing levels of power and authority between the partners. Some partners may have more Partnership working can be very complex for a variety of reasons, evaluate them here.
The barriers to working in partnership make it more complex with time, priorities and knowledge, approach, respect and trust of everyone involved with the child -- their families and many different professionals who need to or are legally obliged to have input on the child's education, health and well-being.
Time
Parents might not regularly check their emails. They could at times misunderstand the wordings of our letters or e-mails.
Priorities and Knowledge
Organizing a time that is convenient to meet parents. There are parents/carers who have rigid notions concerning school and learning and do not budge from their priorities as they do not deem learning as important. Parents may have no time or are not fully involved or parents might be too involved and over-invasive in their child's education.
Approach
As it is an overly sensitive topic; parents may perhaps get defensive which could lead to a conflict in the relationship. Therefore, influences a child's response to learning, for instance; when parents permit children to act as they desire, they tend to follow the same in the classroom.
Sharing information and systems of keeping information
Although it may benefit the child; parents might not wish for their child's information to be shared. There could be an absence of trust in the practitioner which may possibly affect their decision to share information like previous misunderstandings. And when there is more than one professional involved, it can be difficult to access records as each service will keep its own records and may have different systems of restoring information.
Difficulties may also arise when there are changes of professionals. This may cause a lack of continuity and is not always easy for the child and their families especially when they have built a good relationship with that professional. (Tassoni, 2014, p. 153)
You have provided some examples of how complex partnership working can be due to a range of different constraints, for each of your points now, what could you do as a practitioner to overcome some of these barriers, that would really actively promote good relationships all round and probably benefit yourself, the children, the parents and the reputation of the setting too.
You may find it useful to look at the EYFS statutory guidance here, as well as a policy on parent partnership on the internet. Some examples from your own practice perhaps, if not look at it from a parent's perspective, especially if you have your own children in a nursery or a school environment.