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Private children's homes: an analysis of fee variations and a comparison with public sector costs
In: Policy & politics: advancing knowledge in public and social policy, Band 15, Heft Oct 87
ISSN: 0305-5736
Focuses on private children's homes and the fees they charge and compares them with the costs incurred in the public sector. Compares fees and costs after standardisation for differences in the characteristics of clients, homes and areas. In present circumstances, the private sector appears to offer a cost effective service to local authorities. However, expresses doubts about the scope for a very much larger role for the private sector. (Abstract amended)
Law and People in Colonial America. By Peter Charles Hoffer (Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. xv plus 156 pp.) and Courting Danger: Injury and Law in New York City, 1870-1910. By Randolph E. Bergstrom (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1992. 213 pp.)
In: Journal of social history, Band 27, Heft 4, S. 859-862
ISSN: 1527-1897
Improving Equity and Efficiency in British Community Care
In: Social policy & administration: an international journal of policy and research, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 263-285
ISSN: 0037-7643, 0144-5596
The Economics of Social Care
In: Economica, Band 52, Heft 208, S. 534
Men and Romantic Love: Pinpointing a 20th-Century Change
In: Journal of social history, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 769-795
ISSN: 1527-1897
Interprofessional Education and Training - Transforming Professional Preparation to Transform Human Services
In: American behavioral scientist: ABS, Band 42, Heft 5, S. 876-891
ISSN: 0002-7642
Performance measurement in child care: when a falling board out rate should attract congratulation and not castigation
In: Policy & politics: advancing knowledge in public and social policy, Band 18, Heft Jan 90
ISSN: 0305-5736
Reports how one London borough experienced a fall in its boarding-out proportion over a four year period, but had nevertheless succeeded in finding foster rather than residential placements for a 'more difficult' care population. (Abstract amended)
Building community capital in social care: is there an economic case?
In: Community development journal, Band 48, Heft 2, S. 313-331
ISSN: 1468-2656
Volunteer participation in community care
In: Policy & politics: advancing knowledge in public and social policy, Band 24, Heft 2, S. 171-192
ISSN: 0305-5736
The Conceptualisation of Output and Cost-Benefit Evaluation for Leisure Facilities
In: Environment and planning. A, Band 17, Heft 9, S. 1217-1229
ISSN: 1472-3409
Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses have become widely used tools for the justification of leisure-related expenditures, but are based on a number of inadequate assumptions. The narrow conceptualisations both of outputs and of inputs, and an oversimplified production function linking them are the main problems. Participation is usually assumed to provide an adequate measure of output or benefit accruing to the participant, but it is a measure neither of demand nor of supply, and it ignores the individual-level production that is so characteristic of services. Inputs have previously been equated with resources, to the neglect of nonresource influences on output. An alternative 'production of welfare' approach is described, and its implications for cost-benefit evaluations—and for efficiency studies generally—are examined.
Cost-benefit analysis of psychological therapy
In: National Institute economic review: journal of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Band 202, S. 90-98
ISSN: 1741-3036
At present six million people are suffering from clinical depression or anxiety disorders, but only a quarter of them are in treatment. NICE Guidelines prescribe the offer of evidence-based psychological therapy, but they are not implemented, due to lack of therapists within the NHS. We therefore estimate the economic costs and benefits of providing psychological therapy to people not now in treatment. The cost to the governement would be fully covered by the savings in incapacity benefits and extra taxes that result from more people being able to work. On our estimates, the cost could be recovered within two years - and certainly within five. And the benefits to the whole economy are greater still. This is not because we expect the extra therapy to be targeted especially at people with problems about work. It is because the cost of the therapy is so small (£750 in total), the recovery rates are so high (50 per cent) and the cost of a person on IB is so large (£750 per month). These findings strongly reinforce the humanitatian case for implementing the NICE Guidelines. Current proposals for doing this would require some 8,000 extra psychological therapists withing the NHS over the six years.
FROM PROVIDING TO ENABLING: LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND THE MIXED ECONOMY OF SOCIAL CARE
In: Public administration: an international journal, Band 70, Heft 1, S. 25-47
ISSN: 1467-9299
Government policy seeks to introduce competition into the supply of social care through the separation of purchasing and providing responsibilities. A study of 24 local authority social service departments has explored the initial steps taken to prepare for the new enabling role, including the creation of a mixed economy of care. Very few were seeking to create a market in social care. Most argued that the inherent nature of social care rendered the introduction of service specifications and price mechanisms neither approriate nor feasible. Many authorities interpreted the enabling role in ways significantly different from that of the government. The study raises questions about the extent of local discretion in a context where the range of values and interests of implementing agencies may differ from those of the centre.
From providing to enabling: local authorities and the mixed economy of social care
In: Public administration: an international quarterly, Band 70, Heft Spring 92
ISSN: 0033-3298
Explored the initial steps taken to prepare for the new enabling role, including the creation of a mixed economy of care. Most argued that the inherent nature of social care rendered the introduction of service specifications and price mechanisms neither appropriate nor feasible. Many authorities interpreted the enabling role differently from the government. (Abstract amended)