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Social care markets
— progress and prospects | | Author(s) | Gerald Wistow, Martin Knapp, Brian Hardy, Julien Forder |
| Publisher | Open University Press, Buckingham, 1996 |
| Pages | 200 pp (Public policy and management) |
| Source | Open University Press, Celtic Court, 22 Ballmoor, Buckingham MK18 1XW. |
| Keywords | Community care ; Management [care] ; Grant allocation ; Grants ; Local Authority. |
| Annotation | Continues to present the results of a research programme jointly undertaken by the Nuffield Institute of Health and the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU). This book describes, monitors and evaluates the developing mixed economy of social care in England. The findings of the earlier phase of research were described in Wistow et al's Social care in a mixed economy (1994). Based on detailed research in 25 local authorities, this book focuses on initial experiences of, and attitudes towards, operating within social care markets. Local authorities' utilisation of information systems, and purchasing and commissioning arrangements are examined, as are the motivations and behaviour of independent sector-run residential homes. Local authorities now appear to have a belief that the the market is capable of delivering benefits to users and carers, although there is scant evidence of their understanding of how to use the market to achieve social goals. |
| Accession Number | CPA-961110202 B |
| Classmark | PA: QA: QCG: QEG: PE |
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