Rethinking Practices by Rethinking Expertise: A Relational Approach to Family-Centred Inclusive Services

This article focuses on the views and experiences of professionals providing specialised services to disabled children their families. It is part a larger research project that investigates gap between policy ideals service provision for young families in Iceland. Contrary official policies, earlier findings based families’ perspectives reported strain stress from fragmented inflexible services. The presented here are three focus-group interviews, conducted with 13 six disciplines. aim was capture roles, responsibilities, working conditions. A number organisational professional barriers were exposed along an overall lack awareness basic principles family-centred human rights relational approach disability. Recommendations development inspired by Edwards’ theory about building inter-professional inter-organisational links create high quality practices.