Helping both aspiring and experienced practitioners to empower communities and service users, this book:
• Explores how the developing roles of communities and service users influence policy, services and practice.
• Highlights the different ethical, power and boundary tensions when working with communities and service users and suggests ways to overcome them.
• Provides examples, case studies, activities and useful resources which help illustrate ways and methods of empowering people and enabling their voices to be heard.
An accessible and wide-ranging book, Engaging Communities and Service Users is a must have text for students and practitioners in social care, health and welfare.