Going Local: Working in Communities and

This book helps explain how social workers can develop valuable skills essential for neighbourhood work, engage with users and their locality, and contribute to strengthening local communities. Combining an emphasis on the practice of delivering neighbourhood services that work well with critiques of major concepts, the book analyses the perspectives and policies that are driving the new localism.The book discusses the key concepts of 'neighbourhood', 'community' and 'social cohesion' and explains how to:*gather relevant information and knowledge about a specific neighbourhood*maximise the involvement of local people*develop effective partnerships with other organisations*overcome local religious and ethnic divisions.This core text shows how these principles work out in practice in specific services relating to health and social care. It presents essential information in a clear and accessible manner and includes a series of case exercises to help the reader consolidate what has been learned.

Figures	p. xi
Activities	p. xii
Boxes	p. xiii
Case studies	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 1
The structure of the book	p. 3
Working in communities and neighbourhoods	p. 5
Defining 'neighbourhood' and 'community'	p. 5
Why working with communities and neighbourhoods is important	p. 9
'Neighbourhood effects': what the research tells us	p. 10
The democratic imperative: grassroots meet the grasstops	p. 14
Government policy and the 'new localism'	p. 15
Developing community practice in social work and social care	p. 17
Understanding community practice	p. 22
The difference between 'community-level' and 'community-based' services	p. 23
Defining community practice	p. 23
Community capacity building	p. 26
Delivering outcomes	p. 31
Preventive work	p. 32
Local knowledge	p. 34
Collaboration and partnership: Delivering joined-up services in neighbourhoods and communities	p. 41
Why the old service silos are no longer up to the task	p. 42
Joining up the action: collaboration, alliances and partnerships	p. 43
Constructing effective partnerships	p. 46
Partnerships, power and 'lateral leadership'	p. 47
Local area agreements	p. 50
Barriers to collaborative functioning	p. 51
Specific difficulties in health and social care partnerships	p. 54
Building trust in collaborative relationships	p. 56
Building practitioner-centred networks	p. 56
Engaging communities and neighbourhoods	p. 61
Why participation is necessary	p. 61
Community engagement and government policy	p. 64
Approaches to community engagement	p. 68
Practitioner skills and approaches	p. 72
Other means of involving local people	p. 77
Log frames	p. 78
Using volunteers	p. 80
Neighbourhood services for children and families	p. 84
The importance of neighbourhood environments in children's development	p. 85
Outcomes and Every Child Matters	p. 89
Linking community building with services for children	p. 91
Assessment of children and families: paying close attention to 'the missing side of the triangle'	p. 92
The importance of the early years in achieving successful outcomes	p. 97
Working with and through schools	p. 100
Providing gender balance	p. 105
Meeting the challenge of anti-social behaviour: Community-based services for young people	p. 108
Transition to adulthood as context for practice	p. 109
Outcomes for young people	p. 112
Anti-social behaviour and the respect agenda	p. 113
Emotional health and resilience	p. 118
Impulsivity and behaviour problems	p. 120
Working with schools on youth inclusion	p. 121
Youth offending and drug misuse	p. 122
Leaving institutions and resettling in the community	p. 127
Street-based youth work in deprived communities	p. 129
Community navigator: the 'lead professional'	p. 130
Communities that care: dignity and well-being for older people	p. 132
Older people and social exclusion	p. 133
Outcomes for older people	p. 135
Neighbourhood-based services for older people	p. 136
Shoring up support networks	p. 139
Choice, personalisation and the local market for services	p. 141
Intermediate care and rehabilitation	p. 144
The seamless pathway	p. 147
Collaboration between health and social care	p. 148
Bringing communities together: Overcoming faith and ethnic divides	p. 151
Fractured communities?	p. 151
Community cohesion policies	p. 153
The anti-racist heritage of social work	p. 156
The renewed importance of culture and religion	p. 157
Understanding the experience of new arrivals to settled communities	p. 161
Overcoming division and conflict	p. 163
Mediation and conflict resolution	p. 166
Discussion on the activities	p. 172
References	p. 178
Index	p. 190
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