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The effectiveness of assessment and care planning in a Care at Home service
— a plea for reliability in social work assessments to improve equity in provision | | Author(s) | John Woolham |
| Journal title | Social Services Research, no 4, 1996 |
| Publisher | University of Birmingham, 1996 |
| Pages | pp 8-28 |
| Keywords | Domiciliary services ; Social work ; Evaluation ; Planning [admin] ; Social Services Departments ; Reliability ; Northamptonshire. |
| Annotation | Social work practitioners, academics and trainers are rightly concerned to ensure that assessments made by social work professionals are, where necessary, holistic, comprehensive, sensitive and anti-discriminatory, and thus, valid measures of need. This paper - based on research for a review of Northamptonshire Social Service Department's Care at Home service - provides empirical evidence to argue that insufficient attention has been paid to the reliability of assessments, and that this has major consequences for the equity of service delivery. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970725007 A |
| Classmark | N: IG: 4C: QA6: PF: 5HC: 8NA |
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