Welfare Reform on the Web (January 2002): Social Care - UK - Community Care

DOING WITH, NOT DOING FOR

P. Henderson

Mental Health Today, Nov. 2001, p. 22-24

Article uses the findings of a piece of action research into four local projects in Scotland to show how community development methods can be used to improve community care services. Methods used included:

• working with people in their communities in empowering ways;
• positive action towards excluded groups;
• promotion of organisational capacity;
• using this to develop participation and influence by excluded groups.

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EALTH'S FORGOTTEN PARTNER? HOW CARERS ARE SUPPORTED THROUGH HOSPITAL DISCHARGE

M. Hill and G. Macgregor

London: Carers England, 2001

There is a clear gap between government policy and carers' experience of hospital discharge. While discharge policies recognise that carers need to be fully involved in the hospital discharge process, few Trusts have put in place practical measures to support them.