Main description:

Drawing on the ethos, practices and economics of human focused initiatives such as Shared Lives, this book outlines a new model for public services to replace the `invisible asylum' - an approach focused on achieving and maintaining wellbeing, rather than on reacting to crisis or attempting to `fix' people. The book offers steps which we all - citizens, front line services, and government - could take to achieve this vision.

Contents:

Prologue;
Introduction;
1 How we divide the world into community and asylum;
2 How we create problems by trying to fix them;
3 Why failure pays, but success costs;
4 Risk aversion and risk indifference;
5 The humanisation experiment;
6 Shared Lives;
7 Designing a new national health and wellbeing service;
8 Delivering the national health and wellbeing service;
Can we escape?