This new edition has been updated to reflect recent shifts in community and social care whilst still providing the authoritative account of its historical development. Particular attention is paid to partnerships between health and social care, the regulation of social care, direct payments and individual budgets and user/carer empowerment.
Comprehensively revised and updated
Sets community care in a historical and contemporary policy context
Presents the latest evidence on the impact of community care reforms
Robin Means
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