Developing Good Practice in Community Care

Vicky White is a lecturer in the School of Health and Social Studies at the University of Warwick, where her main research interests are management developments, feminist perspectives on social work. Her experience as a social work practitioner includes hospital and residential settings and a family placement unit. John Harris is a professor in the School of Health and Social Studies at the University of Warwick.

• Acknowledgements. Preface. 1. Changing Community Care. Vicky White, University of Warwick and John Harris, University of Warwick. 2. Improving the Quality of Written Assessments: A Participative Approach. Ann Morrison, Warwickshire Social Services. 3. Progressing Race Equality: Dynamics of Partnership. Mehrunnisa Lalani, Derby City Council, and Jon Whiting, Warwickshire Social Services. 4. Working with Health: From Collaboration to Partnership. Carol Roy and Eileen Watts, Warwickshire Social Services. 5. Working with Health: Partnership in Community Setting. Barbara Walters, Warwickshire Social Services. 6. Empowerment as a Participative Process. Linda Fleming, Warwickshire Social Services and Carole McSparran, Warwickshire Social Services. 7. Partnership in Prevention: Messages from Older People. Denise Tanner, Coventry University. 8. Guardianship: A Participative Approach. Nicolette Barry, Birmingham Social Services. 9. Multi-disciplinary Partnership in a Community Mental Health Team. Jez Millen, Warwickshire Social Services and Lesley Wallman-Durrant, North Warwickshire NHS Trust. 10. Developing Good Practice: Prospects and Possibilities. Chris Hallett, Warwickshire Social Services. Appendices. References. The Contributors. Subject Index. Author Index.