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A journey through the years
— ageing and social care | | Author(s) | Ray Jones |
| Journal title | Ageing Horizons, 2007, no 6, 2007 |
| Publisher | Oxford Institute of Ageing, Oxford, 2007 |
| Pages | pp 42-54 |
| Source | Download only from: http:/www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/ageinghorizons |
| Keywords | Services ; Community care ; Care homes ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | The paper analyses the history of English social care philosophy, policy and institutions since the late 1970s and the challenges of today which they have helped to shape. Guiding principles changed in fundamental ways that required and caused profound cultural and structural changes, not always with the intended mix of consequences. The paper covers: the growth of residential care; the advent of "care management"; reform of community care following "Community care agenda for action" (the Griffiths report, 1988), the "Caring for people" White Paper (1989) and the NHS and Community Care Act 1990; the move from service provision to planning and purchasing of services; and direct payments and the extent to which the policy promotes choice and control. From 1998, policy was designed to accelerate and secure greater consistency in development based on the national principles through performance management including rewards and incentives. From 2005, the challenge has been defined more in terms of improving the broad well-being of older people and finding new ways of contributing to it, particularly in ways which would reduce the subsequent need for services. Pressures on public budgets have been and continue to be a major concern of field agencies. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070813234 A |
| Classmark | I: PA: KW: TM2 |
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