...Brian Taylor; Barbara Campbell Purpose Governance is an emerging aspect of social care organisations embodying professionally‐led risk management, quality assurance and service improvement. The purpose of this paper is to put forward a broad conceptualisation of the main dimensions of quality...

... systems thinking ideas to be borrowed from big business. Our problem is that the ideas the public service does borrow from the private sector are almost invariably those that are the most inappropriate and unhelpful. Key words business; leadership; judgement; systems thinking; risk Spotting the big-wave...