Caring and coping : a guide to social services
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Caring and coping : a guide to social services
Routledge, c1998
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [242]-246
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Accessible to professionals and academics as well as students and the general reader
Subject matter - often raised in media
Up to date - with legislation, scandals and social policy
Authors are leading commentators in field of social work and are well known and respected. Terry Philpot is Editor of Community Care - popular and widely read weekly magazine in social care field.
Table of Contents
Notes on authors, Foreword, Introduction, 1. From charity to social work: a history, 2 On the statute book: the law and social services, 3. The nuts and bolts of care: politics and organisation, 4. For the child's sake: services for children, 5. Does the community care?: social services today, 6. Whose service is it, anyway?: involving service users, 7 Home from home?: residential care, 8. Something special: specialist services, 9. More than a piece of paper: social work training, 10. The manager's tale: management of social services, 11 Acts of charity: the role of the voluntary sector, 12. All in it together: working with different agencies, 13. Across the borders: Scotland and Northern Ireland, 14. Conclusion: into the future, Notes, Bibliography, Index
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