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Access to assessment
— the perspectives of practitioners, disabled people and carers | | Corporate Author | Joseph Rowntree Foundation - JRF |
| Journal title | Findings, 318, March 1998 |
| Publisher | JRF, York, March 1998 |
| Pages | 4 pp |
| Source | JRF, The Homestead, 40 Water End, York YO30 6WP. |
| Keywords | Physical disabilities ; Informal care ; Community care ; Needs [elderly] ; Social Services Departments ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | Recent community care legislation means that disabled people must undergo an eligibility test in order to have access to an assessment of their needs. A study by Ann Davis, Kathryn Ellis and Kirstein Rummery explores access to the assessment procedures used by two local authority social services departments (SSDs) - one a metropolitan city council, the other a large county council. Their findings are based on observations of social workers' assessment practice and interviews with disabled people and carers. They found that despite centralised guidelines, different social work teams determined assessment for eligibility differently. Budget considerations had a major bearing on decisions, many of which were taken with minimal contact between social worker and "service user" or carer. Disabled people and carers found their encounters with SSDs confusing, fragmentary, and often irrelevant to their own concerns and priorities. The full report, "Access to assessment: perspectives of practitioners, disabled people and carers" is published by the Policy Press in association with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) and Community Care magazine. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990923508 P |
| Classmark | BN: P6: PA: IK: PF: 3F |
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