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Quality stems from clarity of role
- Authors:
- SNELL Paul, HENDLEY Bill
- Journal article citation:
- Insight, 25.10.89, 1989, pp.25-26.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Publishing
Directly provided services can be improved through provision of clear-cut areas of responsibility. Looks at how Birmingham SSD is implementing reform.
When management skills are part of basic practice
- Author:
- PAYNE C.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 23.6.88, 1988, p.25.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Management in residential care needs to be integrated with practice.
Standard setting
- Authors:
- WARNER Norman, CLOUGH Dick
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.6.96, 1996, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The authors argue a unified system of standards in residential homes is the only way to ensure quality and consistency, but ask what is the benchmark against which they are measured.
The management of residential child care
- Author:
- ADVANCEMENT OF RESIDENTIAL CHILD CARE
- Publisher:
- Advancement in Residential Child Care
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Brief document outlining good management practices for residential child care.
How to plan shifts: deploying residential care staff
- Author:
- RACIONZER Douglas
- Publisher:
- Mantleby Books
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 75p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chelmsford
A manual designed for those responsible for planning shifts in care homes. Covers issues on health and safety and legal concerns in shift working; negative effects of shiftwork on staff; rota design and shift planning; the importance of shifts for managers.
Action stations
- Author:
- TISSIER Gerry
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.3.93, 1993, p.20.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Following a spate of inquiries into abuses in children's homes and reports on the state of residential child care a group of child care experts came together to form the Advancement of Residential Child Care ARCC. The group is set to launch its own charter with the future aim of formulating a national strategy for residential care. Outlines the content of the charter and the action the group requires of the DoH.
By default or design
- Author:
- KELLY Des
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.10.92, 1992, pp.i-ii.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Residential services are facing dramatic changes. Lists challenges facing everyone involved in providing care.
Support needs of residential units
- Authors:
- BLAIR Alan, COLLINS Graham J.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap, 20(1), March 1992, pp.34-38.
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
Describes and discusses the results of a survey undertaken to discover residential managers' perceptions of need for support and shortfalls in provision.
Cool heads: crisis management for administrators
- Author:
- SMIAR Nicholas P.
- Journal article citation:
- Child Welfare Journal, 71(2), March 1992, pp.147-16.
- Publisher:
- Child Welfare League of America
Outlines steps for formulating a policy and a crisis management plan, outlines effective communications practice and staff support in situations in which organisations face a major crisis.
Home Front
- Authors:
- KELLY D., BECK M., HYLAND J.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.8.89, 1989, pp.i-iv.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The third in a quarterly series looking at issues arising from the Wagner Report. This issue : the conflicting pressures of management and practice faced by senior staff, and converting a convent into a residential unit for old people.