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Personal Social Services

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‘There are, then, many possible ways of providing support. Equally, there are many possible ways of financing it — whether from people’s own resources, by social security payments, by charitable funds, by central and local government grants, or by explicit contracts of service between public service agencies and private or voluntary sector suppliers. It is only with an understanding of the immense variety of potential care and through asking the question, ‘who does what best and how can they be helped to do it?’, that we can satisfactorily define the role of the local authority social services department. That question has to be answered if we are to make the best use of all available resources in meeting need.’ (Norman Fowler, ‘The Enabling Role of Social Services Departments’, speech to the Joint Social Services Conference, Buxton, September 1984.)

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McCarthy, M. (1989). Personal Social Services. In: McCarthy, M. (eds) The New Politics of Welfare. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20384-0_2

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