Co-working means two social workers working together as colleagues to help a family group. One of the ways that two social workers could work together is that one worker could work with the children, while another works with the parents. Another way is that one worker might observe another working with the family, either in the room with them or through a one-way mirror or video link. Some of the advantages to this include: seeing and hearing more of what is happening, sharing the pressures and the achievements, learning together and from each other and gaining different insights about the family group, its relationships and behaviour, including possibly different perceptions from black and white, male and female
