This reader includes material relevant to everyone involved in developing new relationships in health and social care. Alongside articles on social care as traditionally conceived, it offers relevant articles from health and education settings. It brings material with a management focus relating to care together with some classic management texts. In four parts, The Managing Care Reader focuses on the experience of being in the front line, managerial responsibilities, professional issues and the importance of the organisational environment. It provides a rich and stimulating collection of essential reading, appropriate for people undertaking management courses or moving into frontline management roles in the broad field of care.