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Modernising social services
— promoting independence, improving protection, raising standards: [A5 popular version] | | 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 | The main points of the White Paper, `Modernising social services' are outlined in this booklet: regional Commissions for Care Standards to inspect all types of care homes; support for adults to enable them to live independent lives in their own homes; Quality Protects, a programme dealing specifically with children's social services; a General Social Care Council concerned with raising staffing and training standards; a system of checks on quality of local authority social services; and provision of additional funding in the next three years through a Social Services Modernisation Fund. This leaflet is also available in Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu, Chinese, Greek, Turkish Somali and Vietnamese. Audio cassette and Braille versions, and a version for people with learning disabilities will also be available. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981201006 B |
| Classmark | I: PF: KW: LHB: Q3: 3U: QM: QW: 583: TM2: 6OA * |
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