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Involving disabled people in community care planning
- Authors:
- BEWLEY Catherine, GLENDINNING Caroline
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Report describing the realities and dilemmas of joint working between service providers, purchasers, voluntary organisations and disabled people themselves in the area of community care planning.
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.