Binding: Paperback
Description: Can we imagine different ways of working together to secure better outcomes for children and families? What are the complex issues that underlie the apparently simple call for joined - up services? Children's services in many countries around the world are being transformed as part of the call for joined - up working for joined - up solutions . Social health and educational policy discourses are driven by the idea that effective inter/professional interagency collaboration is crucial in determining whether service delivery to children and families will succeed or fail. However the rapid turn from previous inter/professional practices of liaison consultancy cooperation and collaboration to more radical and wholescale service integration and sector transformation has not been accompanied either by a well considered research agenda of hard questions nor close scrutiny of its effects and consequences. The book asks a series of searching and challenging questions: What are the complex issues involved in children's sector transformation for all those involved young people practitioners leaders and managers policy makers? How can the silos in which professionals have traditionally been prepared for practice be broken down? What are the orthodoxies that surround joined - up working and in what ways should they be challenged? Written by authors from across the wide range of professional policy and disciplinary groups involved in this new cross - cutting area of policy and practice this book provides a critical analysis of the complexities of children's services transformations. The research in this collection addresses the range of discursive policy and organizational developments associated with the transformation of children's services providing an important and timely analysis of their complexities and is essential reading for all those working in the complex spaces of children's services.
Title: The Transformation Of Children's Services Examining And Debating The Complexities Of Inter/ Professional Working
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415618496
Pages: 216 Pages, 3 Illustrations, Black And White
Publication Date: 12/27/2011
Category: Education