Publisher's Synopsis
An examination of practice and management issues in community care, illustrating a range of initiatives and providing advice on how to foster, facilitate and encourage the work at a local level. Coverage includes the development of community care, translating ideas into practice, staffing, training, supervision and support, users of community care projects, funding and resources, and inter-agency work. It discusses work in mental health, with the handicapped, with the elderly, with AIDS sufferers and with ethnic minority groups.;The information is the result of interviews with staff throughout the UK. It draws from actual practical and management issues from locations and client groups throughout the UK.
