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.
Through the leadership of a local voluntary agency, a consortium of voluntary and public sector organisations has achieved rapid growth in decent quality housing and support services, and promoted complementary daytime opportunities. This report is a brief narrative account of Southwark Consortium and first three years.
This document is a learning package aimed at improving the support given to carers by health, social service and voluntary sector agencies. It is based on a pilot project in Croydon. The package describes ways in which more effective collaboration between agencies can be achieved and the impact this can ...
This research project is the result of collaboration by the following organisations:- The King's Fund; London Boroughs Training Committee; London Voluntary Services Council; National Institute of Social Work; Age Concern Greater London. It was financed by the King's Fund. The limits of altruism explores the social and psychological processes which ...
The concern of this report is to review some of the problems involved in the future collaboration between the health services and the personal social services after NHS reorganisation in 1974: in particular to highlight certain specific issues which seem to warrant more careful or detailed consideration. The problems of ...
The Mental Health Foundation funded a project to improve working relations between voluntary and statutory agencies in the field of community care, focussing primarily on people with long term mental health problems. This paper is laid out as a series of chapters covering aspects of collaborative work. Each is followed ...