Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 11 Issue 5

Editorial

Peter Thistlethwaite

Working Together in Children's Services: A Time to be Bold?

Bob Hudson

The number of children in England, and the number who may need additional support from services, is large and growing. At the latest count there are approximately three million…

Child Protection Post‐Laming: The Wider Agenda

Roger Bullock

The Laming Inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbié recommends national and local changes to the child protection process. While the benefits of national reforms are uncertain…

Duties to Care Leavers

Jon Dow

This article takes a fresh look at the duties to care leavers, focusing on the overlap with adult services in relation to young care leavers over the age of 18.

Can Complexity Theory Provide Better Understanding of Integrated Care?

David Kernick

The patterns of health and social care provision in the community have always been complex. The Government's current call to integrate systems of care can be seen as a search for…

Making Sense of Organisational Change in Primary Care Trusts

Paul Waddington

This article starts with a case study of organisational development consultancy with a primary care trust (PCT) in the Midlands which has used the generation of metaphorical…

Developing Integrated Support for Deafblind People: Social Services Going it Alone?

Michael Wood, Janet Leece

This paper considers recent guidance on social care for deafblind adults and children issued to local authorities in March 2001 by the Department of Health under Section 7 of the…

Integrated Working: A National Initiative to Bridge the Gap between Research and Practice

Alix Crawford

This article describes a government‐sponsored initiative to promote integrated working in health and local authority services for adults and children. It outlines the policy…