title: Beyond child development centres: care coordination for children with disabilities.
abstract: A specific model of care coordination for children with disabilities is described, comprising parental empowerment, a defined client population, individual tailoring of service based on assessment of need, inter-agency collaboration beyond existing team boundaries, continuity of named professional contact across transitions important to families, and a named care coordinator. The first stages of local implementation of the model are described for children with a disability making the transition into nursery school provision. Qualitative findings from interviews with families and care coordinators are presented, and the possibility of care coordinators providing a Named Person function is examined.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Wales, Bangor, UK.
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Appleton
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Böll
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Everett
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Meredith
authors.forename: T G
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: Payne
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003256:Community Participation / Q000379:methods; D003258:Consumer Behavior / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002658:Developmental Disabilities / Q000628:therapy*; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D017146:Models, Organizational; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014852:Wales