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Residential homes for older people: retaining the council service
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR PUBLIC SERVICES
- Publisher:
- Centre for Public Services
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 24p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
Critique of plans by St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council to transfer residential homes for older people from local authority responsibility. Criticises the economics of the plan and argues that changes will have a negative impact on users and staff. Makes recommendations for making the in-house service more effective and puts forward the case for public sector quality care.
The future of Tameside care group
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR PUBLIC SERVICES
- Publisher:
- Centre for Public Services
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 59p.
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council was the first council to externalise its residential care services almost a decade ago. It no longer directly provides any residential care for the elderly in the borough. The importance of the lessons arising out of this experience are especially crucial at a time when many local authorities are considering whether to provide such services in house.