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Taking care — progress with care in the community
Corporate Author	Audit Commission for Local Authorities and the National Health Service in England and Wales
Publisher	HMSO (The Stationery Office), London, 1993
Pages	15 pp (Health and Personal Social Services Bulletin no.1)
Source	HMSO Publications Centre, PO Box 276, London SW8 5DT.
Keywords	Community care ; Social Services Departments ; Finance [care] ; Planning [admin] ; Contracts ; Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Tables [data].
Annotation	Although progress has been made with community care changes since 1993, according to the Audit Commission, this document suggests that local authorities need to continue building on this. It concentrates on assessment procedures, developing budget planning, planning and controlling expenditure, and developing commissioning. Attention is drawn to conditions under which authorities spend the special transitional grant (STG). Extensive use is made of graphs to illustrate points such as prices paid and net costs to local authorities for independent nursing and residential homes.
Accession Number	CPA-970410206 P
Classmark	PA: PF: QC: QA6: 6QH: KW: LHB: 6B *
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