From a collaborative and integrated welfare policy to frontline practices

Abstract

The chapter discusses collaborative and integrated welfare as a current policy trend and defines the core elements of interprofessional collaboration and service user participation. Interprofessional collaboration and service user participation are conceptualised as relational and interactional activities taking place in boundary spaces and requiring and constituting relational expertise. Furthermore, the chapter addresses the potentials and challenges of interprofessional collaboration and service user participation. Multi-agency meetings and teamwork are introduced as frontline arenas and boundary spaces to ‘do’ collaboration based on shared aims and common knowledge.