by Michael Hill (Editor), Bob Hudson (Contributor), Stephen Mitchell (Contributor), Ian Shaw (Contributor), Bob Hudson (Contributor), Michael Hill (Editor), Jane Tunstill (Contributor)
This new textbook provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to the main context in which social work is practiced - Local Authority Social Services. It is based on the realities of work in a modern social services authority and is written by an author team which combines teaching and writing expertise with the experience of working in the social services. The book covers all the local authority personal social services and the frameworks within which they operate. It addresses the major changes that have taken place in the social services in recent years and looks forward to prospects for personal social services in the future.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: 1
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 06 Jul 2000
ISBN 10: 0631209476
ISBN 13: 9780631209478
The other contributors are Bob Hudson, Principle Research Fellow in the Community Care Division at the Nuffield Institute of Health at the University of Leeds.
Stephen Mitchell, Head of the General Social Services Policy Branch in the Department of Health.
Ian Shaw, Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Nottingham.
Jane Tunstill, Professor of Social Work at Royal Holloway College, University of London.