Offers a comprehensive evaluation of community care strategies within the context of government social policy, and assesses the shifts in political power from Conservative to Labour towards the end of the century. Includes chapters on: the history of community care; health services and community care policy; social services, community care and the market; older people and community care; disabled people; mental health, homelessness and housing policies; women and community care; black and minority ethnic groups; and citizenship, participation and community care.
Offers a comprehensive evaluation of community care strategies within the context of government social policy, and assesses the shifts in political power from Conservative to Labour towards the end of the century. Includes chapters on: the history of community care; health services and community care policy; social services, community care and the market; older people and community care; disabled people; mental health, homelessness and housing policies; women and community care; black and minority ethnic groups; and citizenship, participation and community care.
Subject terms:
homelessness, labour market, mental health problems, mixed economy of care, older people, physical disabilities, social policy, social work history, social care provision, user participation, women, black and minority ethnic people, community care, citizenship, health care;