‘Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.’ Voltaire’s famous statement may not have been uttered with multi-agency working in mind, but it is nonetheless true that the right questions asked at the right time go a long way to getting the answers needed to help keep children safe and well.
The experts tell us that without training, this will be hard. Training enables practitioners not just to be more assertive about asking questions, but also get a feel for what sort of information it is that they need. ‘You get a lot of professional politeness – people don’t really understand they can push or how much they can push,’ says Clare Joyce, training manager at training company Interface.
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