Publisher's Synopsis
Although practitioners and users are interested in how agencies can work effectively together, they face a number of barriers in doing this. Furthermore, there is a lock of general understanding among professionals of, for example, the policy, legislative and demographic changes which influence interagency working, agency boundaries and agencies' responsibilities. Following on form Asking the impossible? (1996), this report provides a greater understanding of the nature and practice of interagency collaboration. This is illustrated by a wide range of examples where housing, health and social care agencies have worked together to address the care support needs of people able to live in ordinary housing. The report also provides a broad contextual overview of policies influencing housing, health and social care, in order to inform readers unfamiliar with policies nor in their direct area of concern.
