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THE TRANSFORMATION OF CHILDREN'S SERVICES
EXAMINING AND DEBATING THE COMPLEXITIES OF INTER/PROFESSIONAL WORKING |
| By: |
Joan Forbes (Editor), Cate Watson (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£48.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0415618495 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780415618496 |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
30 September, 2011 |
| Pages: |
216 |
| Description: |
"Well-publicised failures of professionals from different agencies to collaborate effectively have been held responsible for a number of recent tragic deaths of children in the UK. As a result of this, children's services are being transformed as part of the call for 'joined-up working for joined-up solutions' in social work, education and health, with some social and educational policy discourses driven by the idea that 'effective' inter-professional, inter-agency collaboration is crucial in determining whether service delivery to children and families will succeed or fail. This book provides an analysis of the complexities in transforming children's services. It critically examines the assumptions that underlie current practice in an attempt to uncover and question what needs to change to improve services for young children. The book examines: - Policy, theory and discourses surrounding inter-professional practice - The formation of professional identities and their impact on practice - The role of early professional training and socialization into professional norms, values and roles - The effects of the complex relationships between professional identities, knowledge and practice in the development of social and other capitals. Written by authors from across a wide range of professional, policy and disciplinary groups, the key issues are examined from a range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives - essential if collaborative understanding is to be developed among policy-makers, practitioners and academics working across the range of children's services"-- |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
3 black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Routledge |
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Returnable |
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