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The effectiveness of assessment and care planning in a Care at Home service — a plea for reliability in social work assessments to improve equity in provision
Author(s)	John Woolham
Journal title	Social Services Research, no 4, 1996
Publisher	University of Birmingham, 1996
Pages	pp 8-28
Keywords	Domiciliary services ; Social work ; Evaluation ; Planning [admin] ; Social Services Departments ; Reliability ; Northamptonshire.
Annotation	Social work practitioners, academics and trainers are rightly concerned to ensure that assessments made by social work professionals are, where necessary, holistic, comprehensive, sensitive and anti-discriminatory, and thus, valid measures of need. This paper - based on research for a review of Northamptonshire Social Service Department's Care at Home service - provides empirical evidence to argue that insufficient attention has been paid to the reliability of assessments, and that this has major consequences for the equity of service delivery.
Accession Number	CPA-970725007 A
Classmark	N: IG: 4C: QA6: PF: 5HC: 8NA
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