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The right remit
- Authors:
- BEWLEY Catherine, GLENDINNING Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.4.94, 1994, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
For community care plans to be drawn up it is essential that users are consulted. Although disabled people are being involved in plans, the authors' research raises questions about how representatives of disabled people are chosen and highlights the negative effects of asking people questions which are inappropriate to their situation. Newer organisations of disabled people, advocacy groups and black and ethnic minority community groups are less likely to belong to more established networks and therefore will miss out on consultation.
Representing the views of disabled people in community care planning
- Authors:
- BEWLEY Catherine, GLENDINNING Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 9(3), 1994, pp.301-314.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper gives a critical account of the different ways in which the views of disabled people are sought and represented in community care planning; and of the organisational and practical barriers which disabled people and their organisations are likely to encounter in representing their views to service planners.
Disabled people and community care planning: findings
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Place of publication:
- York
The 1990 NHS and Community Care Act required local authority social services departments and health authorities to publish each year their plans for community care services, in collaboration with service users. The first community care plans were published in April 1992, a year before the main community care changes came into place; most have been revised annually since then. A project based at the University of Manchester has examined how disabled people are involved in community care planning in five local authority areas; and the opportunities which this offers to influence the development of services.
Community care planning and disabled people: barriers to effective involvement
- Author:
- BEWLEY Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Impact, 6 April 1994, April 1994, pp.10-11.
Describes a project in Manchester which has for the last two years been looking at the involvement of disabled people in community care planning. Concludes that community care planning is at crossroads. Either it will become a paper exercise absorbing huge voluntary sector resources for little return. Or it will be more closely linked to purchasing an commissioning, providing an opportunity for disabled people and voluntary organisations to influence service provision directly.