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The Social Fund's impact on clients : a report on monitoring in Strathclyde Social Work Department - Part 1
- Author:
- STEWART Gill
- Journal article citation:
- Social Services Research, 17(6), 1988, pp.1-11.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Discusses the impact of the Social Fund with particular reference to people with disabilities and the implications for the policy of community care.
Bathing: the body and community care
- Author:
- TWIGG Julia
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 240p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Uses bathing as a means of exploring what happens when the public world of professionals enters the lives of older and disabled people. Analyses the experiences of users and carers in the light of historical, sociological and anthropological theory and explores concepts of the body and carework.
Cash and care in the community
- Author:
- FITCH Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Benefits, 14, September 1995, pp.23-25.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Discusses the controversy over the suggestion that the assessment tasks concerned with disability benefits provision and the provision of care services should be combined.
Broken promises
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.08.95, 1995, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A survey by Scope has found that care in the community has largely failed to deliver user-controlled, needs-led services.
Community care alliance
- Author:
- MACFARLANE Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Impact, 10, November 1994, pp.10-11.
Outlines how users can and should be involved in planning and providing services.
Getting users' plans to take off
- Authors:
- BRANDON Althea, BRANDON David
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 14.10.93, 1993, pp.12-13.
Care planning is a vital issue in community care. Individual care plans will only work if care managers react in a flexible way to the needs of disabled people.
Getting results: unlocking community care in partnership with disabled people
- Author:
- FIEDLER Barrie
- Publisher:
- King's Fund Centre/Prince of Wales' Advisory Group on Disability
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 27p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Demonstrates how responsive services are being achieved and suggests key factors that produce results.
So late a White Paper, so soon a bill
- Author:
- BROWNE L.
- Journal article citation:
- Contact, 63, Spring 1990, pp.15-18.
- Publisher:
- Royal Assocation for Disability and Rehabilitation
Comments on the White Paper, particularly in relation to assessment and consultation.
Flexible services
- Author:
- OLIVER M.
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 6.4.88, 1988, pp.25-28.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Argues that the medical model of disability is a barrier to the provision of a community nursing service which satisfies the needs of the clients.
Negotiating access to community care assessments: perspectives of front-line workers, people with a disability and carers
- Authors:
- RUMMERY Kirstein, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 7(4), July 1999, pp.296-300.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Presents evidence from a study of how people with a disability and their carers gain access to community care assessments following the implementation of the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act. Suggests that there are several barriers in negotiating access to assessments, including lack of information.