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Dreams or expectations?
- Author:
- HOLMAN Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 7(3), January 1994, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
In London, a service for someone with learning difficulties could cost as much as 70,000 pounds a year. Trust managers are beginning to scrutinise these costs. But rather than personalising this funding to meet people's rising expectations, purchasers are returning to bulk buying and standard regimes.
Who's putting the squeeze on services
- Author:
- HOLMAN Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 8(2), October 1994, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Looks at the strangleholds preventing the growth of quality services for people with learning difficulties: the financial stranglehold; the complaints and registration stranglehold; the stranglehold of public opinion; the stranglehold of services attitude.