ABSTRACT
Multi-agency working with young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties (EBD) and their families aims to coordinate and,where appropriate, co-locate the resources ofmulti-disciplinary professionals and service agencies to address complex educational, social and health concerns. This approach seeks to address such shortcomings as ‘siloing’ professional expertise and services in discrete organizational units, interagency frictions, and serious delays, gaps and overlaps in service responses. It was considered ‘essential for delivering co-ordinated services to particular groups of children’ (Salmon and Kirby 2008: 107) and built upon long-standing ‘inter-professional and inter-agency working’ policies in the UK (Reynolds 2007: 442).
