Making Partnerships Work in Community Care A Guide for Practitioners in Housing, Health and Social Services

This workbook has been designed to enable practical joint working between agencies to develop and flourish at the operational level. It will assist those responsible for supporting individuals in the statutory and independent sectors to better appreciate the respective roles of local housing, health and social care agencies.  The workbook aims to: encourage and facilitate a partnership approach to joint working at the operational level across housing, health and social services; encourage practitioners to carry out their work in a way that includes service users and carers as partners; demonstrate why joint working is essential even if it is difficult to achieve in practice; provide specific guidance and innovative practice examples across a wide range of housing and community care issues. Separate modules address the challenge of joint working; mapping your locality; assessment and care management; home adaptation and home improvement; primary healthcare, and hospital admission and discharge. This workbook is essential reading for first-line managers in housing, health and social services agencies. It will also be invaluable for individual field-level and front-line staff involved in providing assessments and assisting in the provision of services for people with a variety of needs and health problems.