Bob Pitt – författare

Across the range of social care, health and welfare professions, it is essential that students and practitioners engage meaningfully with the communities and service users they work with. This book offers a timely and practical guide to the methods and skills related to forming and developing such partnerships.Helping both aspiring and experienced practitioners to empower communities and service users, this book:- Explores how the developing roles of communities and service users influence policy, services and practice- Highlights the different ethical, power and boundary tensions when working with communities and service users and suggests ways to overcome them- Provides examples, case studies, activities and useful resources which help illustrate ways and methods of empowering people and enabling their voices to be heardAn accessible and wide-ranging book, Engaging Communities and Service Users is a must have text for students and practitioners in social care, health and welfare.

This book is essential reading for anyone studying and working in the new integrated children's services. The Children's Workforce Development Strategy sets out the basic skills and knowledge needed by people whose work brings them into regular contact with children, young people and their families. Built around this Common Core of Skills and Knowledge and packed with case studies and reflective exercises, this book helps students and practitioners understand the theory behind these issues and develop strategies for embedding them within their own practice.