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Survey of independent sector residential care provision for elderly people in Hampshire
- Authors:
- LOVELOCK Robin, ROBINSON Judy
- Publisher:
- Hampshire. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 56p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Winchester
Research undertaken as part of Hampshire SSD's need to develop capacity to contract with the independent sector for residential care services, in line with the requirement for SSD's to become enablers rather than direct providers. Contains qualitative data about the current extent and nature of independent sector provision as well as qualitative information from providers regarding possible future developments.
Residential care contracts: individual contracts for older people in residential care and nursing homes
- Author:
- CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- Consumers Association
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 25p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Paper intended as a starting point for those who wish to improve the service to older people in residential care and nursing homes by developing written definitions of exactly what that service is supposed to consist of. Aimed at social services, the NHS and the private sector.
ESOP's fable
- Author:
- MITCHELL David
- Journal article citation:
- Insight, 1.8.90, 1990, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Publishing
An Employee Share Ownership Plan for the city's residential services is one of a number of options being considered by Newcastle Social Services Department.
Care in question
- Author:
- WARD Charles
- Journal article citation:
- Local Government Chronicle, 20.5.94, 1994, p.14.
- Publisher:
- Emap Business
Looks at the as yet undetermined issue of how far councils can dictate contracts for residential homes when providing community care.
‘What matters is what works’? How discourses of modernization have both silenced and limited debate on domiciliary care for older people
- Author:
- SCOURFIELD Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 26(1), February 2006, pp.5-30.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Policy statements about the care of vulnerable older people repeatedly emphasize the desirability of keeping people at home. An enduring problem in implementing this strategy is the ongoing crisis within the quasi-market in domiciliary care. The government announced in 2004 that it wanted a new vision for adult social care. In such circumstances, it could be argued that, in order to achieve home care services that are stable, flexible and better placed to integrate more effectively with health agencies, local authorities should significantly expand in-house provision. This article discusses how discourses of modernization exclude ideas that imply an expansion of directly provided social care. Such discourses have so much invested in the shedding of what it regards as outmoded ‘welfarist’ baggage, they are blind to proposals that could improve the lives of older, vulnerable citizens.
Payback time?
- Author:
- SCHWEHR Belinda
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 36, 21.5.03, 2003, pp.6-9.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Higher care home standards, the cost of inspections, insurance and recruitment crisis have all contributed to increasing costs for care home providers. A recent court ruling ruled that eleven care homes in Lincolnshire were entitled to a fair price for their services. Look at the implications for councils across the country and suggests that many may have to re-examine their contracts with local homes.
Degrees of separation: are local authorities changing their commissioning behaviour?
- Author:
- UNIVERSITY OF KENT. Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publisher:
- University of Kent. Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
Analyses local authorities commissioning behaviour towards their external and in house providers of care services for older people, with particular reference to the overall delivery of social care. The report reveals the gap between government aspirations and what is happening on the ground.
Tameside: a well-tempered provider
- Author:
- HODGSON Geoff
- Journal article citation:
- Caring Times, March 2000, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
After ten years of turmoil, Tameside Care Group has established itself as a quality provider of long term care. Managing director Alan Firth highlights the lessons to be learned from the Tameside story.
Home care: the business of caring
- Authors:
- BELL Lesley, HOW Linda
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 104p.,diags.
- Place of publication:
- London
Practical book looking at the problems faced by anyone wishing to set up a new home care business or already running one. Based on the experiences of purchasers and providers of home care. Covers issues such as: the key aspects of the NHS and Community Care Act 1990; researching the home care market; the practicalities of setting up a home care business; business planning and cash flow; managing the business; quality assurance and monitoring; and contracting.
Residential home transfers
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Mixed Economy of Care Bulletin, 2,, June 1994, pp.9-11.
Examines the transfer of local authority residential homes to the independent sector.