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Improving older people' s services: inspection of social care services for older people; September 2001
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 69p.,diags.
- Place of publication:
- London
This inspection report focuses on services for older people in twenty-one local authorities. It focuses in particular on how social services are responding to the national agenda set out in the November 1998 White Paper 'Modernising social services'. It analyses what has improved for older people and their carers, and what factors promoted and inhibited improvement. The biggest message from the inspection was that the majority of social services departments had responded to the White Paper by creating or expanding independence by promoting services targeted at prevention and rehabilitation. This was appreciated by service users but was not yet large scale. The report contains many illustrations of good practice, including user focused residential care, assessment and care planning, culturally responsive services, public information and promoting independence.