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Carers and the missing link — changing professional attitudes
Author(s)	Richard Olsen, Gillian Parker, Alison Drewett
Journal title	Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 5, no 2, March 1997
Pages	pp 116-123
Keywords	Family care ; Services ; Planning [admin] ; Participation.
Annotation	The involvement of users and carers in service planning represents a central plank of reforms in social care, but clear guidance as to what this should entail is absent from the legislation, leaving authorities to develop local involvement strategies. This paper is based on a project mapping the development of services for carers carried out in 1994. The authors argue that involving carers in planning processes at strategic levels will not guarantee changes in practice at lower levels. They discuss weaknesses in the existing literature regarding user and carer involvement, and suggest ways in which opportunities for 'micro-level' consultation can be developed.
Accession Number	CPA-970529013 A
Classmark	P6:SJ: I: QA6: TMB
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