Subject(s): Institutional care in Great Britain in Management. -- POLITICAL SCIENCE in Public Policy in Social Services & Welfare. -- SOCIAL SCIENCE in Human Services. -- Five stories of management -- Thinking about residential care - Its content organization and management : Wider picture and core task, becoming a good manager in a hostile environment -- Practicalities of managing a therapeutic social ecology : Residents, staff, building, money, budget and finance, putting it all together and making it work- therapeutic ecology in action -- Outside influences : policy elite, inspection and independent outsiders- protecting residents