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Stronger links

A guide to good practice for children's family-based short-term care services

Carol Robinson author Vicky Jones editor Christine Lenehan editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Policy Press

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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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. 

"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
"The language is clear, the farmat is user-friendly and the example materials from individual schemes provide helpful illustrations." Community Care

ISBN: 9781861341655

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Weight: unknown

200 pages