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From community care to market care?
— the development of welfare services for older people | | Author(s) | Robin Means, Hazel Morbey, Randall Smith |
| Publisher | Policy Press, Bristol, 2002 |
| Pages | 201 pp |
| Source | The Policy Press, University of Bristol, 34 Tyndall's Park Road, Bristol BS8 1PY. |
| Keywords | Services ; Health services ; Community care ; Care homes ; Social Services Departments ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | "From community care to market care?" focuses on the interpretation and development of national policy at local authority level in four contrasting local authorities. The authors outline the development of welfare services for older people from 1971 to 1993, and explore whether service developments in this period were as inadequate as claimed by the proponents of radical change. Similarities and differences in community care systems before and since the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 are also examined. Chapters are organised around the following key themes: the community care and modernisation agenda of the 1997-2001 Labour government; targeting and rationing domiciliary care services; the changing role of local authority residential care; the boundaries between health and social care; moves to establish a mixed economy of social care, or the alternative "quasi-markets" in community care. Future lessons and issues from the past in developing community care and considered in the light of the re-elected Labour government's modernisation agenda. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020520219 B |
| Classmark | I: L: PA: KW: PF: TM2 |
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