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Food for thought
- Author:
- BARSBY Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Insight, 20.6.90, 1990, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Publishing
Pinning down the objectives of the meals on wheels service is likely to be highly politically charged, but should not be ignored.
Free personal care in Scotland: recent developments
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
An examination of the operation of the free personal care policy in Scotland, its impact, problems and limitations. Although the free personal care policy has wide public support, local authorities report that misunderstandings remain - for example, concerning whether meal preparation is free.
Introducing more consistency in local authorities' charging for non-residential social services: guidance for local authorities
- Author:
- WALES. Welsh Government
- Publisher:
- Welsh Government
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 91p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This statutory guidance has been issued to help local authorities design and operate their discretionary charging policies for non-residential social services they provide or arrange. These includes services such as home care or day care. Issues covered include: the principles of charging where local authorities choose to; setting charge levels; means assessments; determination of the ability of a service user to pay a charge; procedure for determining a charge and reviewing charging decisions. The guidance has been issued under section 7 of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970. It replaces the 2002 guidance 'Fairer charging policies for homecare and other non-residential social services' and circular letter of 7 March 2007 issued as NAFWC 11/07.
Squaring the circle: devising charging policies for domiciliary care services
- Author:
- LUNT Neil
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 14(1), 1996, pp.85-95.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Discusses charging policies for day and domiciliary care services, focusing particularly on how social service authorities grapple with setting charges. This is one of the most difficult tasks facing departments and present as they attempt to ensure the smooth implementation and operation of community care policy. Clearly, levying charges for domiciliary services - home care, meals-on-wheels, day care attendance and so on - is of primary interest to social service departments. Charging, however, also has major implications for health authorities and housing authorities involved in delivering a seamless community care service.
Old people's health and experiences of the caring services: accounts from rural communities in North Wales
- Author:
- WENGER G. Clare
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 117p., tables, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Liverpool
Reports on a survey of health and attitudes to health, contact with and attitudes to health services, the social services, social security and related agencies, and implications for social policy.