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The culture of choice — consumerism in the welfare state
Author(s)	Emma Daniel
Journal title	Housing, Care and Support, vol 9, no 2, October 2006
Pages	pp 30-32
Source	Website: http://www.pavpub.com
Keywords	Housing [elderly] ; Social security benefits ; Consumer choice ; Consumer ; Participation.
Annotation	Increasing the consumer's voice and choice in the housing, care and support sector is not a simple task for a voluntary sector new to the market ethos, pressures and complexity recently introduced. How will the initiatives promoting choice - such as Direct Payments - work with the need to manage the market and constrain costs? There is much work still to do on service user involvement and outcomes, as well as on commissioning and procurement, in order to achieve the improvements we all seek. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-061213518 A
Classmark	KE: JH: WYC: WY: TMB
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