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Our turn next: a fresh look at home support services for older people
- Editor:
- HENWOOD Melanie
- Publisher:
- Nuffield Institute for Health
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 11p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
Looks at shortcomings in community care provision, focusing particularly on home care services and at issues that need to be urgently addressed concerning their provision.
Family policy: retrospect and prospect
- Author:
- HENWOOD Melanie
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 29(1), March 1995, pp.55-65.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Considers the policy response to the International Year of the Family, describing the activities of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Parenting and recommendations for government action. Also examines some of the impediments to the development of family policy in Britain.
Keeping it personal: supporting people with multiple and complex needs: report to the Commission for Social Care Inspection
- Authors:
- HENWOOD Melanie, HUDSON Bob
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 140p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report describes a study which was undertaken in five councils in England to investigate the effectiveness of the response of councils to people who are judged to have complex needs. In addition to analysis of policy and related documents, a total of 76 semi-structured interviews were undertaken with policy, operational and frontline staff, and semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions were undertaken with 35 people using services and carers. In addition to the local fieldwork, the study also drew on the evaluation of data from the Individual Budgets pilot projects in 13 sites. The narrative that emerges in the report is one that underlines the difficulties councils face in responding to complex needs. Too often this results in poor solutions which seek to fit people within inappropriate service definitions and to offer standardised and unimaginative services. The report discusses policy level issues, such as reliance on out-of-area residential placements, and operational level issues, such as independence, wellbeing and choice. The report reveals a general suspicion that the personalisation model has, as yet, been insufficiently developed for people with complex needs and that the most widely showcased examples of success highlighted in the Individual Budget pilots and other schemes have addressed some rather ‘easier wins’.
Future imperfect
- Authors:
- HENWOOD Melanie, WADDINGTON Eileen
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.9.98, 1998, p.21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Outlines how new research shows that many elderly people feel cheated by the welfare state because they are paying twice over for long-term care.
Back to basics
- Author:
- HENWOOD Melanie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.3.97, 1997, pp.4-5.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that getting community care back on course will require much more than structural change and that the next government will have to address the fundamental question of what services are supposed to be for.
Halfway there? Policy, politics and outcomes in community care
- Authors:
- HENWOOD Melanie, WISTOW Gerald, ROBINSON Janice
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 30(1), March 1996, pp.39-53.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The community care reforms which followed the 1989 White Paper "Caring for People" focused on addressing the needs of people requiring long-term care, and on achieving improved outcomes and better quality of life. The agenda set out by the White Paper was for community care in the next decade and beyond. This article questions the extent to which the objectives of promoting choice and independence for users and carers have been achieved. The article also looks at an evaluation framework produced by the Nuffield Institute for Health and the King's Fund. The evaluation framework consists of four components: the definition of desired outcomes; specification of service systems necessary to deliver such outcomes; promotion of access to services; and the development of supporting operational policies and resources allocation mechanisms. Proposes that this framework offers a way forward to monitor and evaluate service outputs and user outcomes.
People who fund their own care and support: a review of the literature and research into the existing provision of information and advice
- Authors:
- HUDSON Bob, HENWOOD Melanie
- Publisher:
- Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 40, 30p.
- Place of publication:
- London
There are growing numbers of mainly older people who make their own arrangements for care and support services without the direct involvement of their local council. Data suggest that at any given time no more than one in five people aged 75 or over in a particular council area make contact with the council and only around one in six receive council funded support. Both the ‘Putting People First’ programme and the Government's Green Paper on the future funding of social care outline the importance of supporting the whole population to stay healthy and active, and also to be advised in making the right choices with respect to the meeting their care and support needs. Yet despite this, relatively little is known about those who fund their own care and support. This report, commissioned by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, the Social Care Institute for Excellence and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, reviews a range of literature across policy, research and development, focusing on or relevant to people who fund their own care and support. The second part of the report looks at the key national organisations and charities involved in the provision of information and advice in social care and how it addresses the needs of people who are self-funding.