This summary contains the findings, conclusions and recommendations of the King's Fund Care and Support Inquiry into the quality of services for people needing care and support. The inquiry was commissioned to examine whether the government's reforms of care service regulation would produce meaningful results and to explore which additional ...
Under One Roof was an interagency project aiming to provide better integrated services to homeless single people in two London boroughs. Over its three year course the project has been able to give us a clear sense of the way forward for rough sleepers' services, from GP surgeries and benefits ...
This inquiry concludes that care and support for older and disabled people could collapse unless the Government allocates at least £700 million extra to social services each year. It shows that Britain's estimated one million care and support workers exist on low pay, with poor training, inadequate support from their ...
This book is intended as a guide to effective ways of helping older homeless people. The authors hope to raise awareness of the problems and needs of a generally neglected group of seriously disadvantaged people, to demonstrate that, contrary to widespread assumption, many of them will accept and respond to ...
Under One Roof is a partnership of over 30 statutory and voluntary organisations addressing the needs of single homeless people in Lambeth and Southwark. It was awarded a King's Fund grant in 1997 with the intention of offering a new one-stop service for single homeless people and improving relationships between ...
The Children's Society Homeless Families Support Programme was established in Newham in 1996 'to increase access to (primary) health care and other related services for homeless families (especially refugees)' in the borough. It was created because existing services in Newham were concentrating on single homelessness, leaving homeless families without a ...
The findings outlined in this book describe a service in inner London that cannot be sustained because it is unable to meet the demands imposed upon it. Services in outer London are comparable with those in other English cities. The mental illness services are in a state of transition, and ...
The aims of this review were: to strengthen the knowledge base of the Grants Committee with an up-to-date survey of needs and activity in relation to the health needs of homeless people and their access to services in London; to develop an overview of funding resources available to support work ...
This publication arose from a King's Fund response to Sir Donald Acheson's suggestion that the time was right to consider practical policy options for tackling inequalities in health. A seminar was held at Ditchley Park in September 1993 which brought together a wide range of people, from central and local ...
The author describes the health problems of homeless people, concentrating on London, and how services for homeless people could be improved. This could be delivered within the National Health Service in an integrated service. The author also looks at why so few homeless people are registered with a general practitioner; ...