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""A reminder of the optimistic origins of direct payments and personal budgets and an engaging account for new social workers of how these fit with the profession's origins and skills."" Jill Manthorpe, Kings College London

A reminder of the optimistic origins of direct payments and personal budgets and an engaging account for new social workers of how these fit with the profession's origins and skills. Jill Manthorpe, Kings College London This book is important to all who need to understand individuals' rights to independence. Community Care

Helpful to have this all in one text. It explores important issues related to user empowerment. --Karin Crawford, University of Lincoln

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Jon Glasby is Professor of Health and Social Care and Head of the School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham. A qualified social worker by background, he has been a board member of the Social Care Institute for Excellence, an NHS Non-Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Integrated Care. Rosemary Littlechild is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Birmingham. She is a qualified social worker and her research and publication interests are in work with older people, partnership working and service user and carer involvement in social care services and social work education.

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