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Community care statistics 2001: residential personal social services for adults
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 75p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Community care statistics 1998: residential personal social services for adults; England
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 50p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Residential accommodation statistics 1996: personal social services; residential care homes and supported residents, England
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 27p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Paying for long-term care: the shifting boundary between health and social care
- Author:
- WISTOW Gerald
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care Management and Planning, 3(3), June 1995, pp.81-89.
- Publisher:
- Pavillion
The delivery of services at the interface between health and social care is profoundly influenced by the historically different origins and purposes of these two forms of provision. Most fundamentally, the NHS was intended to provide a universal and comprehensive service, available to all on the basis of need rather than ability to pay. By contrast social care services retained some of the characteristics of the pre-1948 poor law out of which they emerged. Consequently, social care is selective, subject to means testing, and today, is provided within an increasingly mixed economy of care. Looks at: the changing boundary between health and social care; the implications of this shift; policy developments and responses; and options for the future.
Residential accommodation statistics 1995: personal social services; residential care homes and supported residents, England
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 27p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Covers total adult residential care provision and placements funded by local authorities at 31 March 1995, 2 years after the introduction of the community care reforms.
Negotiating fees: a survey of fee negotiations with independent homes for older people carried out by the London Research Centre on behalf of the Association of County Councils, in conjunction with the Association of Metropolitan Authorities
- Authors:
- EDWARDS Philip, KENNY Doreen
- Publisher:
- Association of County Councils
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 31p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report from a survey looking at: contacts; fee negotiations; fee levels; third party payments and charges; independent DSS funded residents; local authority and trust homes; and the residential care market.
Home truths
- Author:
- BLAND Rosemary
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.6.93, 1993, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the results of a study to measure and compare quality of care in local authority, voluntary and private homes for the elderly in Scotland. The study considered cost comparisons and also sought the views of some of the users by sending questionnaires to mentally able residents and their visitors. The findings revealed that quality of care provided is not related to its costs and that resident frailty does not explain cost differences. Concludes the article with stock questions that need to be addressed when looking at residential care.
Selling off the twilight years: the transfer of Birmingham's homes for older people
- Authors:
- MCFADYEAN Melanie, ROWLAND David
- Publisher:
- Menard Press
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 40p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Like other local authorities, Birmingham City Council has found itself under pressure to dispose of its care homes and to buy care from the independent sector. The council embarked in 1995 on a policy of ‘New Homes for Old’. This entailed selling off some of the council’s 30 homes and using the proceeds to invest in upgrading those that remained. Not only were the families worried about the effect of an enforced move on their elderly relatives, but the residents themselves were also angry about losing the place they had come to know as home. This book describes the action of their campaign group RAGE (Residents Action Group for the Elderly).
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.
The changing role of social care
- Editor:
- HUDSON Bob
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 255p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Collection of paper focusing on the organisational and cultural changes that local authority social services have undergone since the NHS and Community Care Act 1990. Contains chapters on: new approaches to local governance; changes in the statutory sector; changes in the private sector; the voluntary sector and social care for older people; human resources in social care; the changing role of users and carers; social care and housing; social care and social security; the changing balance of direction versus discretion in social care; UK variations; towards a comparative approach to the study of social care; and a blueprint for the new Millennium.