Managing Fragmentation

This title was first published in 2002: The rise of New Public Management and the fragmentation of agencies that resulted created unprecedented new tensions and problems in multi-agency work. This book provides a fascinating insight into the workings of a large multi-agency committee exploring the manner in which different agencies brought their own agendas organizational structures and world-views to a multi-agency forum and expected working relationships to be relatively problem free. Charting the development of child protection in the UK it explores the problems and prospects of both multi-agency working and new public management under the auspices of joint working initiatives. It offers a unique insight into how members of an area child protection committee viewed working with others drawing on detailed comments and quotes from those directly involved.