Social Care and Housing

Ian Shaw is a senior lecturer and Director of Graduate Studies at the School of Social and Administrative Studies at the University of Wales, Cardiff. Sue Thomas is a senior research assistant in the Department of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Care at the University of Wales, Swansea. David Clapham is Professor of Housing and Director of the Centre for Housing Management and Development at the University of Wales, Cardiff.

• 1. Introduction: Boundaries of Change in Social Care and Housing, Ian Shaw, School of Social and Administrative Studies, UWC; David Clapham, Department of City and Regional Planning, UWC and Sue Thomas, School of Social and Administrative Studies, UWC. 2. Practice and Research for Housing the Socially Excluded, Ian Shaw, School of Administrative Studies, UWC. 3. Housing, Poverty and Social Exclusion, Gill Stewart, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Department of Applied Social Science, Lancaster University. 4. Joint Planning: Why don't we Learn from the Past? Christine Oldman, Centre for Housing Policy, York University. 5. Post-Modernism and Knowledgable Competence - Social Work, Housing Management and Community Care Needs, Chris Allen, Research Associate, Department of City and Regional Planning, UWC. 6. The Organisation of Social Services and Housing, David Wiseman, South Lanarkshire Social Work Department and Jim Hayton, South Lanarkshire Housing Service. 7. Women and Housing, Fran Wasoff, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Edinburgh. 8. Race, Culture, Housing and Social Services, Mono Chakrabarti, Centre for Social Work Studies, Strathclyde University. 9. Discourse and Dilemmas in the Housing and Support Debate, Bridget Franklin, Department of City and Regional Planning, UWC. 10. From Benign Neglect to Malign Indifference? Housing and Young People.Mark Drakeford and Howard Williamson, School of Social and Administrative Studies, UWC.

The book is a series of chapters written by a variety of authors but, unlike many, has a strong linkage which points to good briefing and editing. The arguments, in the main, do flow from one author to another and the excellent way in which they all set out clearly what they intend to do at the beginning of each chapter and then come to a summary and conclusion helps.