Local Authority Social Services: An Introduction - Hardcover

 
9780631209461: Local Authority Social Services: An Introduction
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0631209468 ISBN 13: 9780631209461
Publisher: *Wiley-Blackwell, 2000

Synopsis

This new text provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to Local Authority Social Services, the main context in which UK social work is practised .

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About the Author

Michael Hill is currently Visiting Professor at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He was previously Professor of Social Policy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is joint editor of the Journal of Social Policy and the author of numerous books including Social Policy: A Comparative Analysis (1995) and Understanding Social Policy (6th edition, 2000).


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.

From the Back Cover

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.

From the Inside Flap

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.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
*Wiley-Blackwell
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0631209468
ISBN 13 
9780631209461
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
241
Editor
Hill Michael

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