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This new and updated edition of this valuable guide will be welcomed at a time of significant change within social services. It has been completed brought up-to-date and offers a legislative framew...
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  • 19 January 2000
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This new and updated edition of this valuable guide will be welcomed at a time of significant change within social services. It has been completed brought up-to-date and offers a legislative framework for each area in practice in addition to practical guidelines for implementing the legislation. Case studies and material used by existing schemes are included.

Produced as a result of collaboration between the regional groups of Shared Care in England and Wales the guide contains contributions and input from each.

Stronger Links will be invaluable to:

purchasers of services;

schemes in the process of setting up;

established schemes who will be able to reflect and measure their existing practice against the good practice advice offered. 

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Price: $29.95
Pages: 200
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Policy Press
Publication Date: 19 January 2000
ISBN: 9781861341655
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, Social work
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"It is difficult to imagine how any Social Services Team could do without it, both for setting up a now shared care scheme and for evaluating and improving an existing scheme." Share an Idea, Contract a Family
Contents: Introduction; Publicity and recruitment; Access to services; Assessing carers; Assessing children and families; Preparation; Consulting children, parents and carers; Matching and linking; Reviewing and monitoring placements; Reviewing the approval of carers; Training and support for carers; Quality assurance in family-based shared care schemes; Managing good practice; Concluding comments.