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"Into the community?": proceedings of a day seminar hosted by the SSRIU for the Social Services Research Group (South East Region) at Portsmouth Polytechnic Wedesday February 20th 1985
- Author:
- SOCIAL SERVICES RESEARCH GROUP
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
- Publication year:
- 1985
- Pagination:
- 88p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Portsmouth
The turnover of care staff in children's homes
- Author:
- KNAPP Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 3(2), 1985, pp.19-25.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Staff turnover in residential settings breaks the continuity and stability of care and has other deleterious consequences. Examining data gathered in a nationwide survey of public, voluntary and private children's homes allowed the scale of the turnover problem to be assessed. Turnover rates were highest in the voluntary sector - contrary to the view taken by some commentators. Comparing figures in 1963 and 1983 indicates that the turnover rate among care staff is now much lower, particularly in local authority homes.
Privatisation of residential care for elderly people: the data hare and the policy tortoise?
- Author:
- McCOY Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 3(1), 1985, pp.10-18.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Over the last 25 years, residential care for elderly people has grown fastest in the private sector but national policy makers have overlooked their own data. Current policy confuses issues of provision, subsidy an regulation. This paper argues that different sectors cater for different needs; and that privatisation has not reduced state spending but merely shifted it from local to central government. However, a more detailed study of the flow of clients is required before its value to elderly people and their carers can be assessed.
The effectiveness of the home help service with confused old people and their families
- Authors:
- LEVIN Enid, SINCLAIR Ian, GORBACH Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 3(2), 1985, pp.1-7.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
As part of a wider study of relatives supporting confused old people at home the authors considered the relevance of the home help service to the supporters' problems and its effectiveness in alleviating them. Although the service was often not received by old people living with others and presenting the most severe problems, it was generally appreciated by the supporters, relevant to their problems and apparently beneficial to their psychological health. Sometimes it apparently prevented institutional admission. Draws implications for the service and stresses the need to evaluate mainstream services as well as innovations in family support.
Race and research in social services departments
- Author:
- CHEETHAM Juliet
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 3(1), 1985, pp.19-24.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
This article examines the reluctance of local authorities to keep records which take account of ethnic origins and argues the case for better ethnic monitoring as one means of alerting social services departments to gaps in their services. Reviewing the lessons from four studies of the social service response to the needs of ethnic minorities, the author proceeds to draw out the implications for current research priorities.
Informal care: dilemmas for research, policy and planning and the local level
- Author:
- MILLER Nick
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 3(1), 1985, pp.25-30.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
The importance of informal care as a key component of community care is increasingly being appreciated in the fields of research, policy making and planning in the social services. This article reviews some of the characteristics of informal care, with particular reference to recent research on informal care and the elderly. The author draws on his experience of a service review of care for elderly people in a large Shire County to identify some of the issues which confront local authorities in trying to integrate their services with informal networks.
Surveying need: some strengths and weaknesses of research
- Author:
- SMITH Gilbert
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 3(3), 1985, pp.8-12.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Reviews some features of research on social need. It comments on work conducted around the time of major reorganisation of British social work and compares this with more recent trends. The general conclusion is that this body of research has not had the impact upon the structures of service provision that we might have anticipated. Tasks for the future are specified.
The influence of research on policy: how do they relate?
- Author:
- BULMER Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 3(2), 1985, pp.13-18.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Applied social science research strives to be useful, but how does it actually impact upon policy? This article reviews recent British literature on the relation between research and policy, which points to patterns of diffuse rather than specific influence. Models of the policy-making process are then considered, and the limits of the rational model highlighted. The article ends with a discussion of the implications for the practice of social services research.
Exchange theory and helpers on the Kent community care scheme
- Author:
- QURESHI Hazel
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 3(1), 1985, pp.1-9.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
This article explores some of the issues involved in using nominally paid, locally-recruited helpers in the provision of services to dependent elderly people. Using data drawn from a study of the perceptions on one group of such helps on an experimental community care project, it is argued that some of the actions and attitudes of helpers, social workers, and elderly clients could be better understood and interpreted in the light of insights derived from the literature on social exchange.