Managing Fragmentation : An Area Child Protection Committee in a Time of Change (Hardcover)

Contents: A review of the changes to the structure of the child protection system of England and Wales since 1974; The contested nature of partnership working in welfare settings; A review of the development, growth and status of managerializm within the agencies comprizing the child protection system; The search for inconsistencies between partnership and NPM; A consideration of the methods employed in the empirical research; An introduction to the research setting, participating agencies and key factors; Greentown ACPC at work: environmental context; Greentown ACPC at work: comparative properties approach; Greentown ACPC at work - the collaborative linkages; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.