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Doing it for themselves — participation and black and minority ethnic service users
Author(s)	Nasa Begum
Corporate Author	Social Care Institute for Excellence - SCIE; Race Equality Unit - REU
Publisher	The Policy Press, Bristol, 2006
Pages	26 pp (Participation report, 14)
Source	Download from website: http://www.scie.org.uk The Policy Press, Fourth floor, Beacon House, Queen's Road, Bristol BS8 1QU. tpp-info@bristol.ac.uk
Keywords	Ethnic groups ; Services ; Usage [services] ; Participation.
Annotation	While service user participation in social care has increased markedly over the last 20 years, participation and black and minority ethnic (BME) communities has diminished over the same period. This report is based on the author's Lord Pitt Memorial Lecture in November 2005, 'Is participation working for black and minority ethnic service users?'. The report identifies some of the reasons for the reduction in service use - for example, that BME communities have a history of self-help - and concludes that given the right opportunities, support and resources, there is genuine commitment and interest in service users to become more actively involved. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-060907203 E
Classmark	TK: I: QLD: TMB
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