The rise of New Public Management and the fragmentation of agencies that resulted created unprecedented new tensions and problems in multi-agency work. This book provides an insight into the workings of a large multi-agency committee, exploring the manner in which different agencies brought their own agendas, organizational structures and world-views to a multi-agency forum and expected working relationships to be relatively problem free. Charting the development of child protection in the UK, it explores the problems and prospects of both multi-agency working and new public management, under the auspices of "joint working" initiatives. It offers an insight into how members of an area child protection committee viewed working with others, drawing on detailed comments and quotes from those directly involved.
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figures, tables, biliography, index
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Höhe: 159 mm
Breite: 223 mm
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978-0-7546-1840-9 (9780754618409)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
A review of the changes to the structure of the child protection system of England and Wales since 1974; The contested nature of partnership working in welfare settings; The development, growth and status of managerialism within child protection agencies; The search for inconsistencies between partnership and NPM; A consideration of the methods employed in the empirical research; An introduction to the research setting, participating agencies and key factors; Greentown ACPC at work - environmental context; Greentown ACPC at work - comparative properties Approach; Greentown ACPC at work - collaborative linkages.
