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This programme looks at a community care scheme in Kent. This is a scheme where volunteers are recruited for small amounts of money to take care of the frail elderly in their own homes. The scheme ...is illustrated in the programme by looking at two volunteers and their clients. The role of the local authority Community Care organiser is also highlighted as essential to the entire scheme. By looking at what the volunteers actually do and placing this alongside the comments of critics and supporters alike, the debate about Community Care is an important focus of the programme. Is Community Care a way of letting people grow old with dignity and independence; or is it a way of providing services on the cheap by overriding residential places that would otherwise be needed? Also are the helpers really volunteers or are they badly paid workers organise and controlled by the local authority - and as such, is this but one example of the state directing and commanding the efforts of local volunteers. These questions are central to the programme as is the actuality and service given by helpers to the frail and elderly
This programme looks at a community care scheme in Kent. This is a scheme where volunteers are recruited for small amounts of money to take care of the frail elderly in their own homes. The scheme ...is illustrated in the programme by looking at two volunteers and their clients. The role of the local authority Community Care organiser is also highlighted as essential to the entire scheme. By looking at what the volunteers actually do and placing this alongside the comments of critics and supporters alike, the debate about Community Care is an important focus of the programme. Is Community Care a way of letting people grow old with dignity and independence; or is it a way of providing services on the cheap by overriding residential places that would otherwise be needed? Also are the helpers really volunteers or are they badly paid workers organise and controlled by the local authority - and as such, is this but one example of the state directing and commanding the efforts of local volunteers. These questions are central to the programme as is the actuality and service given by helpers to the frail and elderly
| Module code and title: | D355, Social policy and social welfare |
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| Item code: | D355; 01 |
| First transmission date: | 04-08-1984 |
| Published: | 1984 |
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| Restrictions on use: | |
| Duration: | 00:24:33 |
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| Producer: | Francis Sealey |
| Contributor: | Martin Loney |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Community care; Social work; Volunteers |
| Master spool number: | HOU4503 |
| Production number: | FOU238A |
| Videofinder number: | 295 |
| Available to public: | no |
