Local Authority Social Services An Introduction,9780631209461

Local Authority Social Services An Introduction

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780631209461
ISBN10: 0631209468
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-09-11
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This new text provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to Local Authority Social Services, the main context in which UK social work is practised .

Author Biography

Michael Hill is currently Visiting Professor at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He was previously Professor of Social Policy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is joint editor of the Journal of Social Policy and the author of numerous books including Social Policy: A Comparative Analysis (1995) and Understanding Social Policy (6th edition, 2000).


The other contributors are Bob Hudson, Principle Research Fellow in the Community Care Division at the Nuffield Institute of Health at the University of Leeds.

Stephen Mitchell, Head of the General Social Services Policy Branch in the Department of Health.

Ian Shaw, Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Nottingham.

Jane Tunstill, Professor of Social Work at Royal Holloway College, University of London.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
ix
List of Tables
x
List of Contributors
xii
Preface xiv
Acknowledgements xvi
Part 1: Establishing the Main Concerns of the Book 1(56)
What are Local Authority Social Services?
3(19)
Michael Hill
Introduction
3(4)
Social services work
7(5)
Social services and other areas of social policy
12(2)
Social services and health
14(5)
Social services as last resort services
19(2)
Conclusions
21(1)
Origins of the Local Authority Social Services
22(16)
Michael Hill
Introduction
22(1)
Personal social services before 1948
23(3)
Developments in the 1940s
26(1)
1948 to 1971
27(4)
1971 to 1990
31(6)
Conclusions
37(1)
The Contemporary Social Framework
38(19)
Michael Hill
Introduction
38(1)
The basic demographic picture
39(1)
More complex demographic issues
40(6)
Ethnicity
46(2)
Economic stresses and strains
48(4)
Ill health and disability
52(2)
Conclusions: social pathology and social services
54(3)
Part 2: The Local Authority Social Services Task 57(80)
Child Care
59(26)
Jane Tunstill
Introduction
59(2)
A brief historical perspective on social services provision for children
61(1)
The legal and administrative framework
62(6)
Services and settings
68(8)
Key services issues
76(5)
The role of training
81(1)
Conclusions
82(3)
Adult Care
85(20)
Bob Hudson
Introduction
85(1)
Services for older people
85(7)
Services for people with a learning disability
92(6)
Services for physically disabled people
98(6)
Conclusions
104(1)
Mental Health
105(14)
Ian Shaw
Introduction
105(2)
Mental illness and the new community care
107(2)
Mental health and social work
109(2)
Problems with community care
111(1)
Managing dangerousness
112(6)
Conclusions
118(1)
Social Services and Social Security
119(18)
Michael Hill
Introduction
119(3)
Cash and care in the years after the end of the Poor Law: an evolving relationship
122(1)
Cash benefits and welfare rights
123(3)
The welfare responsibilities and concerns of social security agencies
126(3)
The impact of the 1986 Social Security Act
129(3)
Disability, community care and local authority means testing
132(3)
Conclusions
135(2)
Part 3: Organization: Present and Future 137(71)
The Central and Local Government Framework
139(19)
Michael Hill
Introduction
139(1)
The role of the Department of Health
140(2)
The Audit Commission
142(1)
The local government context
142(1)
The collective representation of local authorities
143(1)
Local government finance and the social services function
143(5)
Policy making in local government
148(6)
Organizational issues about health service collaboration
154(3)
Conclusions
157(1)
Organization within Local Authorities
158(21)
Michael Hill
Introduction
158(1)
The organization of social services: the model after Seebohm
158(4)
Elaborating the model: preoccupations in the 1970s and 1980s
162(2)
The `big bang' of the 1990s -- community care and the Children Act
164(3)
Contemporary models of social services organization
167(8)
Staffing of social services authorities
175(2)
Conclusions
177(2)
Modernizing Social Services: The Management Challenge of the 1998 Social Services White Paper
179(23)
Stephen Mitchell
Introduction
179(2)
Background: the 1997 inheritance
181(2)
Why modernize?
183(3)
Modernizing adult services
186(4)
Modernizing children's services
190(3)
Strengthening regulation of services and the work-force
193(3)
Improving performance
196(3)
Conclusions: the key challenges
199(3)
Conclusions: The Future of Local Authority Social Services
202(6)
Michael Hill
References 208(12)
Index 220

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