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Modernising social services
— promoting independence, improving protection, raising standards: executive summary | | Corporate Author | Department of Health - DoH |
| Publisher | Department of Health, London, 1998 |
| Pages | 7 pp |
| Source | Department of Health, PO Box 410, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7LN. |
| Keywords | Services ; Social Services Departments ; Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Registration eg homes, nursing homes ; Inspection ; Personnel ; Training [welfare work] ; Standards of provision ; Social policy ; Government publications. |
| Annotation | This executive summary outlines the main proposals in the Government's White Paper, `Modernising social services', which aim to improve protection of vulnerable people and raise care standards. The reasons for `modernisation' includes problems with: protection; co-ordination; inflexibility; clarity of role; consistency; and inefficiency. In services for for adults, priorities for improvement are: promoting independence, improving consistency, and providing convenient, user-centred services. Services for children are set out under the priority areas of protection, quality of care, and improving life chances. Improving protection, standards in the workforce, and partnerships between health and social services will be dealt with by eight regional Commissions for Care Standards, and a General Social Care Council (GSCC). Funding will be increased through the Social Services Modernisation Fund. The summary concludes by listing features demonstrating that public confidence can be restored. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981201005 B |
| Classmark | I: PF: KW: LHB: Q3: 3U: QM: QW: 583: TM2: 6OA * |
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