Inter-Agency Working: Cultural Needs, Information Sharing, and Multi-Disciplinary Teams

Inter-agency working

Contents
INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.......................................................................................................................................3
Question 1............................................................................................................................................3
Determine the multiple factors with references to the different cultural needs in communities in the
UK.....................................................................................................................................................3
Explain how information sharing is perceived as a cultural issue and how it impacts on the delivery
of health and social care?...................................................................................................................4
Discuss the key agencies which has ability to deal with this complex case.......................................5
Question 2............................................................................................................................................6
Evaluate the attributes of an effective multi-disciplinary team in dealing with this situation and the
effect of leadership within the team, particularly when there’s need to share information, given Ted
circumstances....................................................................................................................................6
Critically analyse the type of skills a leaders possess to support the team as well as Ted?................8
Question 3............................................................................................................................................9
Write a reflection on what you have learnt in relation to working with the differing cultural needs of
the communities involved..................................................................................................................9
Identify what areas of practice you need to develop in order to work well with a multicultural
community and in a multi-disciplinary team?..................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..................................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Interagency working can be describe as the working more than one agency in more
formal and planned manner. In this type of working proper plan and procedure is developed
to work together as well as accomplished desired job role. This required more collaboration
working in order to attain desired job role as well as working effectively and efficiently. This
report includes the case study of Mary (Milner, Myers and O'Byrne, 2020). She is a elder
woman who go on shopping weekly through council bus. The driver of the bus found out that
Mary tied her husband to chair when she goes to shopping. Mary said she do so because of
her husband Ted might walk away or hurt himself or cause fire in the property. Volunteer
driver has reported information to her manager who consulted a friend that works in aged
care assessment team. The council and local health service team reassured that they will help
her. This report will includes different multiple factors that are differing cultural needs in the
communities in the UK along with information sharing as well as impact on delivery of
health and social care is determined. It includes different attributes of effective multi
disciplinary team has been determined as well as skills of leaders to support team is
determined. Apart from this own learning about different cultural needs along with the multi
cultural community understanding
MAIN BODY
Question 1
Determine the multiple factors with references to the different cultural needs in
communities in the UK.
There are various factors in the case study which has point out the difference in the
culture and the need to make changes so the people in UK will be more safe and satisfy with
their culture and trend. From the case study it has been identified that people are having quite
wrong perception about the nursing home that is insight of considering it save place to spend
rest of their considering it worst place to live. Secondly other factor which has been
highlighted in the case study is that condition of old or elder people is not good which is
because of culture they are having and following. The communities in UK must focus on
providing proper knowledge and positive impact of the nursing house among old people as
they are scared of this place. With the help of various channels such as television, poster,
newspaper and social media they should provide the effective information to people

regarding qualities and use of nursing home. Furthermore they should focus on improving the
conditions of these nursing homes in order to improve their functioning and operations. All
these activities are taking place due to different culture needs of the people in UK. In UK the
large population belong to different culture live where understanding doesn’t match.
Moreover the focus should be on the education of people specially young individuals so that
they also take steps to do something good for senior citizen of the UK. There is a need to
develop the helping culture where people should focus on their near bypeople and individuals
belonging to their family to take care of them. There are many nursing homes been opened in
UK because there is no value for old people as people are more concern about their own life
and are quite selfish. Hence there is need to make changes in the culture in order to make
people more aware about the personal relation so that old people didn’t find outsiders for
help. Furthermore there is need to make people aware about the various helping services and
homes for old people who are facing difficult hence need to focus on improving and
developing multicultural within UK.
Explain how information sharing is perceived as a cultural issue and how it impacts on the
delivery of health and social care?
Information sharing can be describe as the practice of exchanging data between people or
organisation. Through this, individual is able to share or transmit idea and message with other
people as well as provide them information about certain aspects (O’Leary, and et.al., 2018).
There are different ways and approaches to share information with other people. Information
sharing have different pros and cons that will lead to have major affect on individual.
Different cultural will perceive information sharing in different manner (Coates, 2017). There
are different cultural issues that are associated with the information sharing. Cultural issues
can be describe as the disagreement in the socity along with the government that has
authority of particular origin or nation. This includes the issues associated with the socio –
economical, communication as well as technological differences. Information sharing is
perceived as the cultural issues as with in a culture that are different people with different
mind set (Saario, Juhila and Raitakari, 2015). Due to this, there are high chances that
different people with get the meaning of information in different manner. Each and every
individual will perceive meaning or information according to their mind set or understanding
of the topic. So information share is perceived as the cultural issues and it could lead to
increase confusion or misunderstanding (Harris and White, 2018). There are various
problems and issues that are associated with the information sharing as it can cause damage