This work from the "Personal Social Services Research Unit" looks back to the early stages of community care, comparing them with today's emerging policy with a view to improving community care still further. The book describes the first stages of the local development of the community care policy reforms laid out in the 1989 Caring for People white paper and the subsequent 1990 NHS and Community Care Act. It spans the period between the mid-80s, when the policy initially began to crystallize, and the beginning of 1993, when the reforms were formally implemented. By "vision" the authors mean the underlying logic and content of policy in the broadest sense - about what might be potentially achieved, and by what means. "Reality" on the other hand refers to those elements of the community care world which are adapted and used to achieve the policy ends - structures,procedures, resources, values and commitments - the "real" world.
- ISBN10 1857424085
- ISBN13 9781857424089
- Publish Date 19 June 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 April 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Ashgate Publishing Limited
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 210
- Language English