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Only in the autonomous local community can individual rehabilitation goals be addressed; can necessary exceptions be made with specific clients without creating national precedents; can welfare services be arranged providing for local conditions without, at the same time, affecting the rules by which other clients are served in other locations; can a welfare programme be carried out according to the cultural and value patterns of the community — the same cultural and value patterns which the client will have to adhere to after he has attained self-sufficiency. Only in the autonomous local community can a welfare programme be designed which can provide for a prompt appeal mechanism without bureaucratic impediments to resolution of disagreements; can voluntary welfare programmes be integrated with public welfare programmes for rehabilitation; can the total information and resources of the client and community be quickly known and used effectively for rehabilitation; can help be rendered to a citizen by his concerned peers, rather than by some impersonal agency.
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© 1989 Ralph Segalman and David Marsland
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Segalman, R., Marsland, D. (1989). The Autonomous Local Community. In: Cradle to Grave. Studies in Social Revaluation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19869-6_16
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