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Providing a safety net
- Author:
- BROWN Hilary
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.10.92, 1992, pp.iv-v.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Complaints procedures are recognised as an essential safeguard within the new mixed economy of care. Questions whether they can deliver positive change to people with learning difficulties.
Purchasing health and social care for people with a learning disability
- Editor:
- SMITH Beryl
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 71p.,diags.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
Papers from a conference on the mixed economy of care in the context of services for people with learning difficulties. These include: implications of current legislation; strategic commissioning decisions; health assessment in learning disability; the role and function of psychological assessment in the care management process; identifying services to meet different needs; and the purchasing role.
Women, oppression and social work: issues in anti-discriminatory practice
- Editors:
- LANGAN Mary, DAY Lesley
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 259p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Offers a new perspective on feminist social work which takes into account the complexity of manifold oppressions that affect the lives of most women and most social work clients. Includes chapters on: race, class and gender; women in the mixed economy of care; feminism, managerialism and performance measurement; social work education; black single mothers; women with learning difficulties; women in residential work; lesbians, the state and social work practice; and social work and older women.