Full Description
This title was first published in 2002: The rise of New Public Management and the fragmentation of agencies that resulted, created unprecedented new tensions and problems in multi-agency work. This book provides a fascinating insight into the workings of a large multi-agency committee, exploring the manner in which different agencies brought their own agendas, organizational structures and world-views to a multi-agency forum and expected working relationships to be relatively problem free. Charting the development of child protection in the UK, it explores the problems and prospects of both multi-agency working and new public management, under the auspices of joint working initiatives. It offers a unique insight into how members of an area child protection committee viewed working with others, drawing on detailed comments and quotes from those directly involved.
Contents
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.
