Transforming Community Care: A Distorted Vision? Author:Helen Gorman & Karen Postle with particular emphasis on young

with particular emphasis on young people and criminal justice issues

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Transforming Community Care: A Distorted Vision? Author:Helen Gorman & Karen Postle with particular emphasis on youngThe engine of community care is the professional practice of care management. However, its implementation in the managerialist 1990s frustrated the flexible implementation of community care. Gorman and Postle use their detailed research to show powerfully how a generation of social workers have been disillusioned by care management and they use their own practice experience with older people to demonstrate the continuing possibilities for social work