Beschreibung:
Provides a thorough and up-to-date analysis of changes in the structure and organisation of the health service, with its key focus on health policy and the provision of health services in the UK. Allsop highlights those issues omitted from the Government's policy agenda, and considers the future of health policy in the 1990s.
List of figures and tables. Introduction, Part 1: Reshaping the personal social services. 1. Overview of the personal social services. 2. Seebohm: family-based treatment in the welfare services. 3. Consumerism versus empowerment; the quasi-markets of social care. Part 2: Services for children and families 4. Families. 5. Children and young people. Part 3: Adults' Services. 6. Community care. 7. Mental health and disability. 8. Group care. Part 4: Criminal and youth justice services. 9. Criminal justice. 10. Youth justice. Part 5: Future prospects. 11. Future of the personal social services. Part 6: Documents. Acts and inquiry reports.Select bibliography. Figures and tables