Improving children's services networks : lessons from family centres

Improving children's services networks : lessons from family centres / Jane Tunstill, Jane Aldgate and Marilyn Hughes.

Designed to meet a range of day care needs for individuals, families or wider communities, Family Centres are central to the government's provision of effective child care services. The study of family centres - monitoring their objectives, examining key challenges faced and evaluating approach...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tunstill, Jane
Other Authors: Aldgate, Jane, 1945-, Hughes, Marilyn, 1947-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007.
Subjects:
Family social work > Great Britain.
Social work with children > Great Britain.
Community-based family services > Great Britain.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Community-based family services
Family social work
Social work with children
Great Britain
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Table of Contents:
  • An introduction to the study
  • The current agenda for children and family services
  • Building links and partnerships with other agencies
  • Family centres and social services : tensions and opportunities
  • Delivering services : the experience of family centres
  • Centres as a gateway to other services : the experience of family centres
  • The importance of centre managers and staff
  • Parents' perspectives on family centres
  • Family centres in transition
  • Family centres : an afterword.

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