"This is an exciting and challenging collection of papers which will really help the reader to consider key contemporary issues of integrated services. It clarifies core issues for all those working with children and young people at a practice and policy level and it will help them to identify the relevant questions to ask before working out what needs to be done and how." Gill Frances, OBE, former Director of Children's Development at the National Children's Bureau "This is an important collection that takes a welcome critical stance on service integration and raises difficult questions about the costs and benefits of integration for policy-makers and practitioners alike. The book presents the arguments in an accessible and readable fashion and is well written, thoughtful and challenging." Dr. Simon Bradford, Reader in Social Sciences, Brunel University