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State versus market: is the market more responsive to differentiated need than bureaucratically planned services? A case study of meals provision for older 'African Caribbean' People in eight London Authorities
- Author:
- BERNSTOCK Penny
- Journal article citation:
- Social and Public Policy Review, 1(1), 2007, Online only
- Publisher:
- University of Plymouth
- Place of publication:
- Plymouth
This paper draws on the findings of a research project that explored whether the market was more responsive to differentiated need than bureaucratically planned services through an exploration of service provision for older ‘African-Caribbean’ people. Part of that study explored meals provision and it is that part of the study that is discussed here. The findings suggest that the introduction of the ‘market’ or ‘quasi-market’ type mechanisms in the delivery of meals provision have not led to the production of meals provision more able to respond to ‘differentiated need’. Both ‘risk’ and ‘cost’ have dominated policy implementation with a trend towards monopoly provision. Indeed the findings suggest that the previous model of bureaucratically planned services was more able to respond to differentiated need than anticipated.