This publication is intended for senior managers and members of health and local authorities who are grappling with the challenges posed by the NHS and community care reforms to services for people with learning disabilities. Its subject is the ways in which public authorities can stimulate large scale change in ...
This report concerns the implementation of assessment and care management within 11 local authority social services departments in England in 1990 and 1991. Assessment and care management are critical elements of the current programme to reform the delivery of services for people with disabilities which was established in the white ...
This briefing paper sets out to review the literature on models of assessment and case management in order to identify key issues which will need to be addressed as Social Services Departments implement the changes outlined in 'Caring for People' and the NHS and Community Care Act 1990. It attempts ...
This pamphlet documents discussions which took place at a seminar. It lists positive attributes of the White Paper `Caring for people' and areas of concern. The Seminar examined what could be done to support effective strategies for change from users' viewpoints and from the viewpoint of an informal carers.