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Improving children's services networks : lessons from family centres / Jane Tunstill, Jane Aldgate, Marilyn Hughes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tunstill, Jane.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community-based family services--Great Britain.
- Community-based family services.
- Family social work--Great Britain.
- Family social work.
- Social work with children--Great Britain.
- Social work with children.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (160 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book details and evaluates expert research into the developing role of family centres in the light of current political and social trends including. A vital addition to the literature on child care services, Improving Children's Services Networks is essential reading for social care practitioners and students, and government policy makers.
- Contents:
- An introduction to the study
- The current agenda for children and families services
- Building links and partnerships with other agencies
- Family centres and social services : tensions and opportunities
- Delivering services : the experience of family centres
- Centres as a gateway to other services : the experience of family centres
- The importance of centre managers and staff
- Parents' perspectives on family centres
- Family centres in transition
- Family centres : an afterword.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786610929528
- 9781280929526
- 1280929529
- 9781846425646
- 1846425646
- OCLC:
- 437181918
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