When Social Services are Local: The Normanton Experience
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In the early 1980s in Britain the organisation of the personal social services had come under increasingly critical scrutiny. The establishment of large social services departments following re-organisation in the early 1970s had led, some argued, to the emergence of services which all too often were over-centralised, fragmented and crisis-oriented in their approach.
In attempts to break out of this reactive system and to fashion services which were more coherent and preventive, a growing n...


