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LinkAge Plus: Capacity building - enabling and empowering older people as independent and active citizens
— a report of research carried out by INLOGOV, University of Birmingham on behalf of the LinkAge Plus National Evaluation Team, the Local Government Centre, Warwick Business School and the Department for Work and Pensions | | Author(s) | Martin Willis, Robert Dalziel |
| Corporate Author | INLOGOV, University of Birmingham; Local Government Centre, Warwick Business School; Department for Work and Pensions - DWP |
| Publisher | Electronic format (DWP), London, 2009 |
| Pages | 74 pp (Department for Work and Pensions Research report, no 571) |
| Source | Downloaded from website (21/04/09): http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rrs-index.asp |
| Keywords | Services ; Coordination ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Citizenship ; Independence ; Participation ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | LinkAge Plus (LAP) provides a comprehensive approach to accessible joined-up services for older people, with central and local government combining their efforts with voluntary and community sector organisations to design, develop and deliver services that meet older people's needs. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) commissioned the Local Government Centre, Warwick Business School to undertake this national evaluation of the LinkAge Plus pilot programme. The report examines the extent to which LAP has been a tool for capacity building for the 8 LAP pilots, by analysing evidence in relation to ten distinct dimensions of capacity building. For the purposes of this research, capacity building is defined as "the creation of additional capability to achieve improved outcomes for older people either through the better use of existing resources, or through the development of new resources". References to the pilot areas (Devon, Gateshead, Gloucestershire, Lancaster, Leeds, Nottinghamshire, Salford and Tower Hamlets) and to other recent reports on capacity building and citizenship illustrate the extent to which LAP has enabled and empowered older people to be independent and active citizens. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090421201 E |
| Classmark | I: QAJ: QK6: IKC: C3: TMB: 3F |
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