Have your say about allied health services

11 January 2010

Have your say!

Are you a young person who uses the services of a physiotherapist, a speach and language therapist, a dietician or an occupational therapist or the parent and carer of one - the Allied Health Professionalsω

The Scottish Government wants to hear your views on how Allied Health Professionals can best work together to support children and young people with additional support needs.

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/12/01152951/0

The Scottish Government has published a consultation document on draft guidance on partnership working between allied health professionals and education

‘This guidance has been written to help school staff and allied health professionals ( AHPs) to work more effectively as partners supporting children and young people. The guidance itself is the result of extensive partnership working. It has been drawn from the experiences of parents and practitioners across Scotland who work in partnership to improve outcomes for children and young people with additional support needs. The guidance is needed because many of the parents and practitioners are saying that there is room for improvement in partnership working. This message was also clear in the HMIE report on the implementation of the Education (Additional support for learning (Scotland) Act 2004 ( HMIE, 2007). The report identifies ways in which the Scottish Government, authorities and schools can take action to improve the quality of partnership working between agencies. It also says that that there is a need to plan support services more clearly and improve opportunities for joint training of education staff and partner agencies. The allied health professions children's services action group, established by the Scottish Government, continued to identify barriers to effective partnership working. As a result the partnership working project was established jointly between the Scottish Government chief nursing officer directorate and schools directorate.’