Age of the Inquiry

The plethora of inquiry reports published in the fields of health and welfare in the 1990s covered the full range of user groups, individuals and institutions. What similarities or differences were there between these inquiries? How effective were they in bringing about change? Whose interest did they best serve
These are some of the questions The Age of the Inquiryexplores in detail, bringing together distinguished contributors with personal experience of chairing or providing evidence to inquiries to consider
the participant's view of inquiriethe purpose of inquiriethe impact of inquiries on health and social policinquiries into: child abuse and death; homicides by mental health service users; the abuse of adults withlearning disabilities; the abuse of older people.
Wide-ranging in scope, The Age of the Inquiryfocuses on service and policy development. It provides an invaluable text for students, teachers and professionals from a wide range of disciplines and professional groups.