Accessing assessment: the perspective of practitioners, disabled people and carers
- Author:
- RUMMERY Kirstein
- Journal article citation:
- Social Services Research, 2, 1997, pp.11-21.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Reports on the results of research which explored how social work practitioners were using the new forms of assessment procedures introduced by local authorities; and obtained the views of disabled people and carers on what they thought of these new arrangements for assessment. The study aimed to increase understanding of the barriers faced by disabled people in accessing support and assistance to live full and independent lives; to explore how carers viewed assessment; and to identify the ways in which disabled people and carers could play an active part in assessment arrangements. Discusses the implications for practice.
- Subject terms:
- informal care, local authorities, physical disabilities, social services, social workers, assessment, carers, community care;
- ISSN print:
- 1351-5586