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Should care managers be brokers? — [Arguments for and against this role being carried out by existing care managers]
Author(s)	Martin Green, Ray Jones
Journal title	Community Care, no 1635, 10 August 2006
Pages	pp 32
Source	http://www.communitycare.co.uk
Keywords	Financial services [older people] ; Advocacy.
Annotation	The adult care Green Paper, "Our health, our care, our say" (Cm 6737), proposes that care brokers or navigators should help people buy their own care. Martin Green, Chief Executive of the English Community Care Association (ECCA) argues the case for this role being carried out by existing care managers, while arguing the case against is Ray Jones, Chair, British Association of Social Workers (BASW). Green suggests that the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) and its successor merged commission should implement something based on the Financial Services Authority (FSA) model. This idea is not reassuring to Jones, bearing in mind recent mis-selling scandals. Rather, a range of community and commercial services should be involved. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-060915217 A
Classmark	J: IQ *
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