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Strategic service change: development of core services in Wales, 1983-1995
- Authors:
- PERRY Jonathan, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 11(1), 1998, pp.15-33.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
National strategies for the development of services for specific client groups are rare in Britain, particularly strategies to which governments pledge significant long term financial investment. This article attempts to gauge the impact of one such strategy, the All Wales Strategy for the Development of Services for Mentally Handicapped People (AWS) by comparing the goals of the AWS with changes in the nature and coverage of services which have followed its inception. Finds that although the pace of change quickened between 1988 and 1995 compared to that in the first five years of the AWS, a wholesale orientation of traditional services is far from complete. Changes in service provision in Wales during the course of the AWS are compared where possible to development elsewhere in Britain.