Three Views Of Care Management

Three views of the relationship between care management in community care and social work

Care management is to be valued as a new perspective and competence in social work

© Malcolm Payne, 1999 from a lecture given At a conference organised by the University Trento at Riva del Garda.

Care management deprofessionalises and devalues social work because it focuses on financial control and management rather than service users’ needs.

Care management creates a new balance in social work between effective service provision and helping and empowering service users.