Implementing Care Plans

Abstract

This chapter is concerned with formal care, that is, services organised separately from the personal networks of people needing care, fitting these services with informal care and making the whole package work together. The community care tariff emphasises the importance in post-Griffiths community care policy of starting from a basis in informal care. However, people seeking assessment hope also to receive services to add to their resources. Social work skills are the link and the ‘glue’ which hold packages of informal and formal services together. Bayley (1973) calls this ‘interweaving’. It creates the ‘seamless’ service of community care policy from an accumulation of differently-administered services.