Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

  • describe and discuss the principles of partnership working

  • review the context and policy background that informs partnership working, particularly as it relates to practice with young people

  • identify some of the benefits that can arise from partnership working, as well as the challenges it may present for practitioners

  • identify ways of developing partnership working practice.

1 What do we mean by ‘working in partnership’?