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This is the concise, accessible guide for students and practitioners who want a comprehensive introduction to health and social care. Engaging practical features, such as user-focused case studies and reflective exercises, promote understanding of theoretical and conceptual knowledge. In turn, clear explanations of social policy theory help frame the policy and practice dilemmas faced by students, front-line workers and policy makers. Chapters cover partnership working and integrated care, independent living, disability and long-term conditions, discrimination, user involvement and support for carers. This new edition has been updated to cover key developments under the Coalition and beyond, including the 2012 Health Act, the 2014 Care Act, the Francis inquiry, the Winterbourne View abuse scandal, the integrated care agenda and the impact of austerity

This engaging and accessible text, now in its third edition, provides a comprehensive introduction to health and social care. This new edition has been updated to cover recent developments, including the integrated care agenda, potential regional devolution and austerity.

List of figures, tables and boxes; Notes on contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 The policy process; 3 From policy transfer to policy translation: the role of evidence in policy borrowing; 4 Policy making through a rhetorical lens; 5 Implementing policy; 6 From evidence-based to knowledge-based policy and practice; 7 Receptive contexts and the role of knowledge management in evidence-based practice; 8 Conclusion; Index

This edited book provides a hard-hitting and deliberately provocative overview of the relationship between evidence policy and practice, how policy is implemented and how research can and should influence the policy process.

Despite learning about the social model of disability in social work training, it is difficult to see how new workers can apply this model in practice in a care management system that seems so service-rather than needs-led. Against this background, the advent of direct payments is a major opportunity to promote choice, control and independent living at the heart of twenty-first century social care. While direct payments can seem like a challenge to the role and professional expertise of qualified social workers, they are a unique chance to deliver genuine empowerment and personcentred, needs-led approaches in a system that all too often does not let its workers strive to achieve these goals.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- A note on terminology -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: Partnership working -- 1 What makes effective partnerships between health and social care? -- 2 The Health Act 1999 section 31 partnership 'flexibilities' -- 3 The Somerset story: the implications for care trusts of the evaluation of the integration of health and social services in Somerset -- 4 Intermediate care -- 5 Partnership working: a service user perspective -- Part Two: Care trusts -- 6 Care trusts: a positive option for service improvement -- 7 Care trusts: a sceptical view -- 8 The Northumberland experience -- 9 The Sandwell experience -- 10 The Hampshire experience -- 11 Care trusts: emerging themes and issues -- Index