Product Description: There is widespread agreement that care and support services must change radically if they are to meet the rights and needs of the rapidly growing number of people who require them.For the first time, Supporting people explores with service users, practitioners, carers and managers what person-centred support means to them, what barriers stand in its way and how these can be overcome...read more

Product Description: Leadership and management appointments are often made on the basis of an exemplary performance record in a non-managerial role with the implicit assumption that this standard will be transferred into the new role. However, the role of manager and leader in social care is very challenging and some managers struggle to acquire the level of performance they had achieved in their previous role...read more

Product Description: Government drivers promote integrated health and social care services for children and adults yet the field is immensely complex, with the involvement of multiple agencies, professionals and other stakeholders. This book will help students and new practitioners make sense of this rapidly changing scene...read more

Product Description: Teamworking is represented as playing a central role in the improvement of health and social care. However, it is mentioned so often, with so many different promises, that there is danger of it being seen as misguided rhetoric rather than practical reality...read more

Product Description: Managing Children's Homes' focuses on leadership, the role of managers, how resources are used in children's homes, and how this impacts on outcomes for children in care. The authors document the variation in success across different children's homes achieve and assess the influence of leadership and management style, the environment in which they work, the impact of staff support, and role of a clear management philosophy...read more

Product Description: This book looks at the nature of management in the human services sector and examines the prevailing issues affecting both the UK and USA. Contradictory forces affect the act of management, such as the imperatives driving the introduction of new control systems which exist alongside the requirement to cut resources...read more

Aims to meet the needs of social work students, professionals and service managers. This edition work explores an area that is central to management in social work. It reflects legislation, policy, procedure and concerns, with material that aims to develop readers' confidence and skills in the context of learning organizations.

Product Description: The New Managerialism and Public Service Professionals is a fresh and insightful analysis of the changes that have taken place in the UK public sector over the past twenty years. Unlike many other recent accounts it is not assumed that these policy goals were always implemented or that new approaches to the management of services are necessarily effective...read more

Social work has become a business. The traditional distinction drawn between social work as a non-commercial activity in the public and voluntary sectors of the welfare state and private commercial activities driven by the market's profit motive has largely disappeared. In The Social Work Business John Harris addresses the introduction and consolidation of business thinking and ways of operating in social work and considers the consequences for service users, carers, voluntary organisations and social workers.The book traces the development of the social work business from its establishment under Thatcherism to its modernisation under New Labour. It looks in detail at the use of capitalist sector methods - the heightened use of surveillance, the increase in managerial control, changes in work practices - and how this is being reflected in social work education.The Social Work Business provides a radical reappraisal of the far-reaching changes the profession has undergone. The sources of uneasiness experienced by many social workers, faced with a transformation in the organisational culture in which they work, are thrown into sharp relief and opened up for debate. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This new text provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to Local Authority Social Services, the main context in which UK social work is practised . (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Community care stands as an example of a complex policy, failing to be implemented as intended. Using research and studies of literature on community care, this text investigates the reasons behind the failure of this "flagship" policy, focusing on the part played by care managers, management and policy implementation approaches...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: New Managerialism, New Welfare? is a carefully integrated textbook that explores the continuing restructuring of the state and social welfare in the United Kingdom. It combines studies of specific policy areas - such as health, education, criminal justice, local government - with chapters that examine cross-cutting themes and developments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Using a range of qualitative and quantitive research methods, this text seeks to break new ground by applying recent developments in choas and complexity theory to the government planning of personal social services. It creates a theoretical framework that describes the unstable interactions of politicians, state managers and markets in the public sector planning process, and concludes that choas and complexity theory contributes a new paradigm to social care planning where diversity of process and information analysis is vital if optimal policy decisions are to be found...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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