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New Labour's Partnerships: Comparing Conceptual Models with Existing Forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Martin Powell  and
Bernard Dowling
Martin Powell
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Social Sciences, University of Stirling E-mail: m.a.powell@stir.ac.uk
Bernard Dowling
Affiliation:
National Primary Research and Development Centre, University of Manchester E-mail: bernard.dowling@manchester.ac.uk
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Abstract

The establishment of partnerships has been a central feature of British social welfare policy since 1997 when the New Labour government came to power. Although the academic attention given to partnership working since then has grown considerably, there have been few attempts to link conceptual models of partnerships with existing forms. This paper addresses this gap and finds that, while there are links between actual and model partnerships, there is little evidence that actual partnerships have been designed or structured to meet their particular tasks.

Type
Themed Section on Partnerships, Governance and Citizenship
Information
Social Policy and Society , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 305 - 314
Copyright
Cambridge University Press 2006

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