Leadership in Social Care

Part I: Leadership of the Profession.; Chapter 1. A Review of Some of the Key Leadership Issues Raised by Recent Inquiry and Inspection Reports. Zoe van Zwanenberg, Scottish Leadership Foundation, Alloa, UK.; Chapter 2. Supervision, Management and Leadership - A Review on These Three Key Disciplines. Kate Skinner, Institute Of Research and Innovation in Social Services, Dundee, UK.; Chapter 3. Leadership and Management for 'Changing Lives' - Developing the New Leadership and Management Framework. Ashleigh Dunn, Scottish Leadership Foundation, Alloa, UK.; Chapter 4. Leadership and Management from a Practitioner Perspective. Harry Stevenson, South Lanarkshire Council, Hamilton, UK.; Chapter 5. Leadership and Management - Not Losing Sight of Both. Anne Cullen and Robin Ladkin, Exeter University, UK.; Chapter 6. Leadership and Learning, and the Purpose of a Learning Framework for Social Care. Carole Wilkinson, Scottish Social Services Council, Dundee, UK.; Part II: Leadership for Collaborative Endeavours.; Chapter 7. Leadership and Collaboration - Learning From The Public And Private Sectors. Chris Huxham, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.; Chapter 8. Collaborative Leadership and the Importance of Place-Based Development. Anne Murphy, In Touch NV, Amsterdam, Holland.; Part III - Leadership Development In Context - Lessons From Beyond Social Work.; Chapter 9. Comparative Approaches. Rick Beinecke, Suffolk University Business School, Boston, USA.; Chapter 10. Learning from Community Based Projects - 'Leadership for a Changing World'. Sonia Ospina, Robert Wagner Institute, New York, USA.; Chapter 11. Leadership Development - Current and Developing Practice in Scotland from Across Public, Private and Voluntary Sectors. Dennis Tourish, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK.; Chapter 12. Lessons from Health Leadership. Graham Dickson, Royal Roads University, British Columbia, Canada.; Chapter 13. Leadership and Positive Psychology - Taking a 'Strengths Based' Approach. Angus Skinner, Centre For Confidence & Well-Being, Glasgow, UK.; This topical series examines areas of particular interest to those in social and community work and related fields. Each book draws together different aspects of the subject, highlighting relevant research and drawing out implications for policy and practice.

Kate Skinner's shortish chapter on supervision, with concepts and ideas and along with van Zwanenberg's opening chapter had me metaphorically nodding and probably actually smiling... This book is essentially about reclaiming space for action and initiative promoted by leadership styles and behaviours that are enabling and empowering and celebratory. It is about a 'positive psychology', which is well recounted and described in the chapter by Angus Skinner... What the book also succeeds in doing is to relate, within current policy and practice contexts for social work and social workers, its consistent theme of empowering and enabling leadership... But does the book suffer for a wider readership from being Scottish-centric? Not at all: indeed, Scotland, going right back to the Kilbrandon Report and the Scottish 1968 Social Work Act, and more recently free personal care for older people and the 'Changing Lives' review of social work, was and is ahead of the rest of the UK.