Transforming Community Care: A Distorted Vision? Author:Helen Gorman & Karen Postle greater user involvement in service

greater user involvement in service provision and delivery is a key priority for many western governments

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with particular emphasis on young people and criminal justice issues

complexity of racialization processes and identity politics are addressed

In line with the “Social Work in Practice” series style

Transforming Community Care: A Distorted Vision? Author:Helen Gorman & Karen Postle greater user involvement in serviceThe 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