Across the generations: Old people and young volunteers (National Institute social services library)

Hadley, Roger

Allen And Unwin

vi 186p hardback, dustjacket, bibliography, index, very good copy from a Cambridge college library, virtually unused

Social Welfare and the Failure of the State: Centralized Social Services and Participatory Alternatives

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Unwin Hyman

Hatch, Stephen

Describes how eight pioneer social service teams have reacted to the recent development of community-based social work, and provides a useful guide to the many interrelated areas of community social work practice. This book should be of interest to professional social workers and community workers.

A Community Social Worker's Handbook

Dale, Peter

Cooper, Mike

Stacey Graham

Taylor & Francis Books Ltd

When Social Services are Local (National Institute Social Services Library)

McGrath, Morag

Routledge

In the early 1980s in Britain the organisation of the personal social services had come under increasingly critical scrutiny. The establishment of large social services departments following re-organisation in the early 1970s had led, some argued, to the emergence of services which all too often were over-centralised, fragmented and crisis-oriented in their approach. In attempts to break out of this reactive system and to fashion services which were more coherent and preventive, a growing number of field teams within the departments had begun to adopt community-oriented patterns of organisation. Originally published in 1984, this book based on an eighteen-month study of the area team at Normanton (Wakefield MDC), which incorporated social workers, ancillaries, and domiciliary staff in neighbourhood sub-teams, offered the first systematic account of the operation of this new approach. The authors examine how referrals and long-term work are handled, describe the management of the team, and consider the views of workers, users and the staff of other agencies. While giving a clear picture of the difficulties faced in adopting a community-centred approach the book provides convincing evidence of its potential to create more responsive and effective services based on better knowledge of the population served, easier access to the team, broader staff roles, and the active encouragement of local community initiatives. The most comprehensive account of an area team so far published, this book would be essential reading for all those concerned to improve the performance of the personal social services at the time. It would be of particular importance to councillors, managers and planners, to social workers and other field staff in social services departments, and to teachers and students of social work.

When Social Services are Local: The Normanton Experience (National Institute Social Services Library)

Across the Generations: Old People and Young Volunteers (National Institute Social Services Library)

Webb, Adrian

Farrell, Christine

Social Welfare and the Failure of the State (Routledge Library Editions: Welfare and the State)

Sociology

Originally published in 1981 Social Welfare and the Failure of the State looks at how the 1980s have ushered in an intensification on the debate of the role of the state in social welfare. The book highlights the trends towards centralisation in modern Britain and then provides a critical argument on to new ground. It highlights the trends towards centralisation in modern Britain and then provides a critical analysis of the growth of the social services in the 1960s and 1970s. But its target is the way these services were provided, not the amount of money spent on them. The authors argue that they have grown in the wrong direction.

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