Planning and Coordination of Social Services in Multiorganizational Contexts

‘They Were Very Threatening about Do-Gooding Bastards’: Probation's Changing Relationships with the Police and Prison Services in England and Wales

“…Contrary to Priestley"s call for clearer role definition, Pratt argued for the role to remain undefined, at least for a while, so the PWOs could use their professional social work (note, social work) skills to develop innovative relationships that were appropriate to the setting. However, crucial to this development in a context of confrontational "communication" and grudging "co-operation" (Davidson 1976) was for the probation service to "come to terms with its fear and distrust [of the prison service] and certainly abandon its arrogance" (Pratt 1975:395).…”

“…The roles of prison and probation officers were viewed as being complementary and the development of cognitive behavioural programmes (such as Reasoning and Rehabilitation and the Sex Offender Treatment Programme) provided opportunities for both to work together in the same classroom (rather as probation and police officers were to work together in the community on prolific offender projects). Encouraging prisoners to accept responsibility for their actions, express victim empathy and improve their repertoire of responses to life problems was an agenda to which both prison and probation officers could subscribe and which necessitated their "co-ordination" (Davidson 1976). …”

Toward a model of interorganizational fields : a case study of a social service federation

“…The gain from participation can be less immediate or tangible than exchanges in a social choice field (Davidson, 1976). An agency may receive few direct benefits from a particular relationship but may endure it because inclusion in the federation requires it.…”

The Partnership for Rural Improvement: An Approach to Inter-Institutional Outreach

“…Collaboration within the Partnership Much has been written on the realities of interorganlza· tional cooperation and col laboration (e.g., Klonglan and Yep, 1972;Aram and Stratton 1974;Davidson, 1976;Warren, Mulford and Yetley, 1976;Hougland and Sutton, 1978;and Rogers, et al 1982). From the 10·year experience of PAI , we have Identified seven levels of collaborative Interactions.…”