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Support brokerage
— a discussion paper | | Corporate Author | Commission for Social Care Inspection - CSCI |
| Publisher | Commission for Social Care Inspection, London, March 2006 |
| Pages | 31 pp (CSCI-137) |
| Source | Commission for Social Care Inspection, 33 Greycoat Street, London SW1P 2QF. Free copies from: Admail 3804, Newcastle NE99 1DY. Orderline: 0870 240 7535 E-mail: enquiries@csci.gsi.gov.uk Website: www.csci.gov.uk |
| Keywords | Services ; Advocacy ; Advisory services [elderly] ; Government publications. |
| Annotation | The idea of brokerage, explained in this report, is a way of helping or enabling people to choose the social care that would best suit their needs. Support brokerage seems to suggest a sort of advocacy or advice service that offers help in choosing care. This paper aims to stimulate discussion arising from ideas in the Green Paper, "Independence, well-being and choice" (Cm 6499; TSO, 2005) and the White Paper, "Our health, our care, our say" (Cm 6737; TSO, 2006) about giving people independence, choice and control in their lives. It suggests how brokerage might change the current system of finding care or support services. It identifies problems that brokerage would need to tackle: access to and information about care services; person-centred assessment and planning; and flexibility of services. It outlines issues about brokerage from a joint CSCI and the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) seminar in November 2004. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070615004 B |
| Classmark | I: IQ: IT: 6OA |
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