Towards integrated care in the Dutch Youth Care system: an action based research

Introduction: Since the new Youth Act came into force in January 2015, there has been a decentralization of the Youth Care system in the Netherlands to local municipalities. By decompartmentalization of budgets, municipalities aim to reduce fragmentation of the Youth Care system and facilitate integrated care on a local level. However, despite major organizational and financial changes, there are indications that these changes itself are insufficient to accomplish integrated care in practice. There is a need for practice based knowledge regarding facilitators and barriers on a professional lev... Mehr ...