Linda Challis
Ashgate
Paperback
168
1990
The public social services seem to be in a constant state of reorganization and social services now present a dazzling array of organizational forms. This book explores the reasons which lie behind this variety. It identifies and examines the tensions which are pulling departments in different directions, the tension between genericism and specialisation, between residential care and community care, between centralization and decentralization, and, most topically, between the role of social services departments as providers of services and their role as brokers and regulators of services provided by the non-statutory sectors.
Ashgate
Paperback
168
1990
The public social services seem to be in a constant state of reorganization and social services now present a dazzling array of organizational forms. This book explores the reasons which lie behind this variety. It identifies and examines the tensions which are pulling departments in different directions, the tension between genericism and specialisation, between residential care and community care, between centralization and decentralization, and, most topically, between the role of social services departments as providers of services and their role as brokers and regulators of services provided by the non-statutory sectors.