Trish Hafford-Letchfield

Social Care Management, Strategy and Business Planning

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a comprehensive guide to strategic social care management, covering all the knowledge and skills that managers in the 21st century must have, and showing how to make theory a practical reality. It will be essential reading for anyone involved in managing or leading practice either in the front line or at a more strategic level.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781843109860
• ISBN-10: 1843109867
• Artikelnr.: 29597715

Autorenporträt

Trish Hafford-Letchfield is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Middlesex University. She has spent many years managing adult services in a local authority and has remained in practice through her continuing involvement with the voluntary sector as a Trustee and management mentor. Trish has been involved with leadership and management education for several years. She has published widely in this area and has a specific interest in older people and equality issues in both education and practice.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Thinking about the legislative and
policy environment for social care. 2. Strategic planning. 3. The business
planning process. 4. Managing resources in your business plan. 5. Project
management. 6. The commissioning and contracting process. 7. Managing
performance. 8. The process of decision-making. 9. Risk assessment and risk
management. 10. Evaluation. References. Contributors to manager's comments.
Index.