Publisher's Synopsis
The research explores from the provider perspective, the challenges and dilemmas, both long-standing and newly emerging, which faced staff working in residential establishments for children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties during the first half of the 1990?s. The work has a strong multidisciplinary approach in that the data presented was gathered from staff working in health, education and care establishments including a number of 'therapeutic communities.' Significant changes in the residential sector are discussed and there is important analysis of the effects of the shift to community care, of the purchaser provider split and of the frequent local social service, education and health authority budget cutbacks and reorganizations which occurred in the first half of the decade.
