Managing fragmentation
Subtitle: an area child protection committee in a time of change
By: Adrian Barton.
Series: Welfare and society
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
Subjects: Child welfare -- Great Britain.; Interprofessional relations -- Great Britain.; Social service -- Teamwork -- Great Britain.; Social work with children -- Great Britain.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 A review of changes to the structure of the child protection system of England and Wales since 1974; title: 2 The contested nature of partnership working in welfare settings; title: 3 A review of the development, growth and status of managerialism within the agencies comprising the child protection system; title: 4 The search for inconsistencies between partnership and NPM; title: 5 A consideration of the methods employed in the empirical research; title: 6 An introduction to the research setting, participating agencies and key factors; title: 7 Greentown ACPC at work: environmental context; title: 8 Greentown ACPC at work: comparative properties approach; title: 9 Greentown ACPC at work: the collaborative linkages; title: 10 Conclusions.