TY - JOUR AB - U.S. Social Services How different are American personal social services from merged services in Britain. Dispersed, freelance agencies fight over clients in communities atomised by ethnic discord. Neither Seebohm‐style welfare legislation currently blocked in Congress, nor experiments in Connecticut, Michigan, or Washington, will achieve unified accountability structures as has happened here. In the United States, integration demands co‐ordinated inter‐agency information and decisions at operating level. VL - 11 IS - 1 SN - 0025-1747 DO - 10.1108/eb001007 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb001007 AU - Algie Jimmy PY - 1973 Y1 - 1973/01/01 TI - SCIENCE FOR SOCIAL WELFARE T2 - Management Decision PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 21 EP - 26 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -