Understanding Costs and Outcomes in Child Welfare Services: A Comprehensive Costing Approach to Managing Your Resources
Samantha McDermid
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Description for Understanding Costs and Outcomes in Child Welfare Services: A Comprehensive Costing Approach to Managing Your Resources
Hardback. Today's child welfare services operate under a limited supply of resources. This book explains how finite resources can be used most effectively, providing social work managers and policymakers with a comprehensive costing model to assess the links between needs, costs and outcomes across the full range of child welfare services. Series Editor(s): Ward, Harriet. Series: Child Welfare Outcomes. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSB1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
Today's child welfare services operate under a limited supply of resources which are being stretched by economic cuts and an increasing number of referrals to children's social care. This book provides a comprehensive costing approach which examines how finite resources can be most effectively used to provide support to the most vulnerable children and their families.
Drawing upon the latest research and data, it outlines a methodology which has been applied to a range of child welfare services. The methodology breaks services down into component parts, creating a 'unit cost' for each type of case and task. This 'bottom-up' ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Child Welfare Outcomes
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849052146
SKU
V9781849052146
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-1
About Samantha McDermid
Lisa Holmes is Assistant Director of the Centre for Child and Family Research at Loughborough University, UK. She currently leads a programme of research to explore the cost of child welfare. With her colleagues, Jean Soper and Harriet Ward she led the development of the Cost Calculator for Children's Services. Samantha McDermid is a Research Associate at the Centre for ... Read more
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