Leadership and Management
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Good practice overview
Leadership and management are closely identified, since managers are expected to demonstrate leadership behaviours in the way they manage teams or services.
However, leadership can be distinguished from management, as in many cases the strategic leadership of an organisation or service does not wholly reside with managers of the service, but with trustees, or members of partnership boards or management boards, who are the ultimate accountable body. This is particularly so with voluntary sector organisations.
In the social care sector leadership responsibilities are carried out at both a UK , national, regional and local level and there is a complex interplay between the different players and their plans. The challenge is to develop plans which meet local needs, but which interacts with the strategic plans of regional, national and UK bodies.
There are many leadership bodies within social care all of which impact on the way services are planned and delivered.