ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of social care, its history and the conceptual frameworks by which it is evaluated and examines residential social care. The legacy of the past continues to wield a powerful influence on residential social care. The National Assistance Act 1948 provided the legislative basis for the post-Second World War developments in residential social care. Social workers, managers and residential care staff employed by local authorities criticised privatisation, presumably because of their self-interest in the ‘enterprise’ of care. The continuing care needs of people with traumatic brain injury include both residential and community-based social care. The continuing care needs of people with traumatic brain injury include both residential and community-based social care. People with Traumatic brain injury are a high priority for residential care, but only if residential care can provide the best possible care and attention and a better quality of life than could be found in the community.
