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Social Care Management, Strategy and Business Planning
Social Care Management, Strategy and Business Planning is a comprehensive guide to strategic social care management, covering all the knowledge and skills that managers in the 21st century must have, and showing how to make theory a practical reality. The book aims to make business planning a more ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Management and Organisations in Social Work (Transforming Social Work Practice Series)
This book is part of the highly-successful Transforming Social Work Practice series and is written specifically to support students on the social work degree. Full of practical activities, case studies and opportunities for students to critically-reflect and explore theory and practice.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Learning in Later Life: Challenges for Social Work and Social Care
Within the UK and Europe, government legislation and policies concerned with demography have asserted a paradigmatic shift towards the increased engagement of older people with public services. The philosophy of user involvement and co-production within these contexts has become integral to finding ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
How to Become a Better Manager in Social Work and Social Care: Essential Skills for Managing Care
Social work and social care managers often find themselves in management positions without having had any formal management training, yet skills and knowledge specific to social care settings are essential for effective practice. This book offers a researched and practical guide to the fundamental s... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Inclusive Leadership in Social Work and Social Care
Social work and social care continue to face an unprecedented period of challenge and uncertainty, requiring the development of leadership capabilities at every level of the workforce as well as in the community. This critical and reflexive book looks closely at the pivotal but demanding role that l... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Rethinking Feminist Theories for Social Work Practice
Feminist social work has clear goals to expose and critically analyse gendered power as a dynamic, historic, and structural concept embedded in our world, and to mobilise and take social action to challenge that power. This is integral to a commitment to the core values of the social work profession... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Interprofessional Social Work: Effective Collaborative Approaches (Transforming Social Work Practice Series)
All Social Work students are required to undertake specific learning and assessment in partnership working and information sharing across professional disciplines and agencies. Increasingly, social workers are also finding that they need to deal with a wide range of other professions as part of thei... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Sexuality, Sexual and Gender Identities and Intimacy Research in Social Work and Social Care: A Lifecourse Epistemology
Until now, sexuality has been treated as a specialist topic or area of specialist social work practice. This book cuts across all areas of the discipline. It examines the relationship between sexuality, sexual identities and intimacies and the life course, and showcases a range of issues pertinent t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Sex and Diversity in Later Life: Critical Perspectives (Sex and Intimacy in Later Life)
Despite increased awareness of sexual diversity, older people's accounts of sex and intimacy remain marginalised. This edited volume addresses diversity in sexual and intimate experience later in life (50+) and captures international research and analysis relating to intersectional identities. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Leadership and Management in Social Care
'This is a timely and well crafted text which is to be commended, with strong chapters from knowledgeable and committed authors. A stimulating read and one which will be of considerable use to those with responsibility for leading and managing learning in social care and social work' - Keith Popple,... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Safeguarding Adults Under the Care Act 2014: Understanding Good Practice (Knowledge In Practice Ser.)
by Emily White • David Orr • Martin Stevens • Trish Hafford-Letchfield • Rebecca Johnson • Michael Preston-Shoot • Suzy Braye • Marilyn Taylor • Sarah Carr • Jill Manthorpe • Fiona Bateman • Jane Lawson • Lee-Ann Fenge • Adi Cooper • Antony Botting • Caroline Norrie • Daniel Baker • Lindsey Pike • Sally Lee • Tony Stanley • John Gunner • Linda Tapper • Lyn Romeo • Nicki Norman • Professor Keith Brown • Sean Olivier • Stephen Martineau • Tish ElliottPractice in safeguarding adults is changing, with a shift in approach to ensure it is person-centred and outcome-focused. The Care Act 2014 introduced new safeguarding duties for local authorities, and this book describes what up-to-date practice should look like, and how to provide the best quality... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017