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Quality in social work services
- Editors:
- BLACK Stewart, GEORGE Carol
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 52p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Stirling
5 seminar papers on quality in social work services in Scotland: what is quality; attempting to promote quality in social work; quality in health care services; quality in services for older people; and one persons experience of quality assurance.
Length of stay of residents and patients in residential and nursing homes for elderly people
- Author:
- DARTON R.A.
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 12(3), 1994, pp.18-24.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
From 1st April 1993, local authorities have assessed applicants for public funding in independent residential and nursing homes. Transfer of social security funds was phased using length of stay and turnover information. Local Authority planners and care managers also need this information. Most studies have estimated the average length of stay for current residents, not the completed length of stay. This paper presents length of stay, turnover, source of admission and source of finance information collected in three local authorities in 1992, and discusses the policy implications.
The supervised attendance order Tayside pilot scheme
- Author:
- LEWIS Jill
- Journal article citation:
- Social Services Research, 2 1994, 1994, pp.34-45.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
The Tayside pilot scheme for use of the Supervised Attendance Order offers an effective alternative disposal for those whose original offence did not warrant custody, but who had been unable rather than unwilling to pay their fines.
The probation service and the independent sector
- Author:
- NELLIS Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Social Services Research, 2 1994, 1994, pp.46-52.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
The concept of partnership between the probation service and voluntary agencies is now firmly established. Looks at what this 'new phase' of relationships might bring, and outlines what led up to it.
Objectives science or social interaction? Researching users' views of services
- Author:
- BARNES Marian
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 12(2), 1994, pp.1-8.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
There have been many critiques of the appropriateness of positivistic methods of scientific research in the context of applied social science. The paper assumes that pure science with its connotations of distance, neutrality and the search for a true, objective standpoint, is neither methodologically possible, nor ethically justifiable. It is stated that this applies to the context of social policy research in general, as well as to research concerned with exploring the lives and experiences of users of health and social care services in particular. From this starting point it explores the methodological implications of an acceptance that the research process itself is a form of social interaction and has to be understood as such.
User and carer involvement in service planning
- Author:
- GAZDAR Claire
- Journal article citation:
- Social Services Research, 1 1994, 1994, pp.66-67.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Describes briefly the author's research which was based upon the work of four projects in the West Midlands. The aim of the projects were to initiate significant user or carer impact upon service development and the research was to find out whether this had been done.
The care careers of young people in youth treatment centres
- Authors:
- BULLOCK Roger, LITTLE Michael, MILLHAM Spencer
- Journal article citation:
- Social Services Research, 2 1994, 1994, pp.28-33.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Reports on a study of the care careers of extremely difficult and disturbed young people. The best composite of the young people found in Youth Treatment Centres (YTCs) was that of a young person seriously beyond control, in conflict with family, neighbourhood, school and the law. Children come from unstable families with rapidly changing membership whose difficulties were often compounded by chronic economic, health and relationship problems.
Social work attachment in a group practice: a case study in success?
- Authors:
- PITHOUSE Andrew, BUTLER Ian
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 12(1), 1994, pp.16-20.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Presents the findings of a programme of research that investigated the impact of a full-time social work attachment to a GP group practice in a large public housing estate in Cardiff.
Feminist research: reclaiming objectivity
- Author:
- GILLESPIE Terry
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 12(2), 1994, pp.23-25.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Outlines methodological considerations in feminist social science inquiry and examines approaches adopted by feminist researchers in response to criticisms that feminist research lacks objectivity and is therefore not scientific. Two issues in particular are explored. First, whether there is a single methodology in feminist research and, related to this, how feminists have redefined objectivity and the nature of scientific inquiry. Second, whether the methods used in quantitative research are inherently male or whether feminists can and should use the full range of available methods.
Exploring and using black resource in research
- Author:
- BUTT Jabeer
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 12(2), 1994, pp.9-12.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Critically examines the three main approaches that have underpinned mainstream research on black communities in Britain; the assimilationist, the 'cultural pluralist' and the 'reactive ethnicity' approaches. All share common weaknesses in that they have encouraged a pathologisation of black lifestyles and behaviour, have been policy rather than community focused and have typically been directed by white researchers. Through the dominance of its 'pseudo scientific' methods, mainstream research has served to ignore or down value research conducted by black people themselves. Yet the scientific rigour of much of this research has served to ignore or down value research conducted by black people themselves. Yet the scientific rigour of much of this research is questionable. Paper argues for a new approach to research which places the experiences and needs of black communities at centre stage.