Consumers, case management and inspection: obscuring social deprivation and need?

1 December 1990

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Critical Social Policy

Vol. 10 (30) , 23-38
https://doi.org/10.1177/026101839001003002

Abstract

New legisation on Community Care has been proposed by the Conserv ative Government because it supposedly increases consumer choice and a flexible response to social need. However, a critical analysis of the two mechanisms for change, cave-management and 'arms-length' invection reveal tendencies in both that distance and obscure pressure to respond to service users and social problems.

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