The 21billion adult care sector in England is stimulating, challenging and hugely rewarding. If you are planning to work in it, then this book is for you. You may also find it useful if want to re-evaluate your career in adult care or just want to know more about how it all works. It is an easy-to-read book that will enable you to think about what is really important to you in a career. Exercises and sensible advice are combined with stories from leading figures in the sector about how they started and progressed. There are many ways that you can really make a difference to people and take on a leadership role. This book is intended to ignite your ambition to do so and direct you to the most appropriate area in the sector, which might be in a local council, working for a charity, managing a commercial company, getting involved in policy at a national level - or quietly setting a great example to your peers, colleagues, clients and their carers. Social work student, Sophie D says: "Your book is very valuable for first year social work students. The interactive-ness of the book helped me immensely. A great read " David Brindle, reviewing this book in The Guardian, writes: this "idiosyncratic guide ... draws on interviews with achievers in public, voluntary and for-profit care services, setting exercises for the reader to self-assess suitability to follow in their tracks."