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The Transformation of Children´s Services: Examining and debating the complexities of inter/professional working
Joan Forbes
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Paperback. Editor(s): Forbes, Joan; Watson, Cate. Num Pages: 216 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSB1; JNF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 163 x 232 x 12. Weight in Grams: 334.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
206
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415618496
SKU
V9780415618496
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About Joan Forbes
Joan Forbes is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Children's Services Research and Policy Study in the School of Education, University of Aberdeen. Cate Watson is Senior Lecturer in Professional Learning in the School of Education, University of Stirling.
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