Takes students through a step-by-step approach into the Care Act 2014 by bringing key legislation into the focus of social work law.

Foreword - Colin Whittington
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Care Act 2014 - Outcomes in Context - Suzy Braye & Michael Preston-Shoot
Chapter 2: Overview of the Care Act 2014 - Tim Spencer Lane
Chapter 3: Implementing the Care Act: assessing need and providing care and support - John Crossland
Chapter 4: The Care Act: the service user's experience - Peter Beresford & Colin Slasberg
Chapter 5: Carers and the Care Act: promise and potential - Jill Manthorpe, Jo Moriarty, Nic Brimblecombe, Martin Knapp, Tom Snell & José Luis Fernandéz
Chapter 6: Caring: a personal perspective - Imogen Taylor
Chapter 7: Adult safeguarding - Suzy Braye & Michael Preston-Shoot
Chapter 8: The Care Act 2014 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005: learning lessons for the future? - Laura Pritchard-Jones
Chapter 9: Navigating practice at the interface between mental health and social care law - Simon Abbott
Chapter 10: Hidden in plain sight: Social work, acquired brain injury and missed opportunities for change - Mark Holloway
Chapter 11: The interface between the Care Act 2014 and asylum law: exclusions and innovations - Forough Ramezankhah & Alison Brammer
Chapter 12: Transitions to adult social care - Cath Holmström
Chapter 13: Connecting people's lives with strategic planning, commissioning and market shaping - Margaret Flynn & Vic Citarella
Chapter 14: Social Work and the Care Act 2014 - Jill Manthorpe