ABSTRACT
This chapter serves to illustrate how restructuring is being played out through the voluntary sector, one of those sets of actors and agencies that form part of the dependency network. It examines the collective experiences of those voluntary/non-profit organisations concerned with health and social care provisioning to the frail elderly within Dumfries and Galloway and Glasgow City. The chapter shows how the forces of change arising from care restructuring are experienced by voluntary sector actors and agents within localised contexts, and how restructuring, combined with social and spatial variations within and between locales, can impact on voluntary care provisioning. In doing so, attention is drawn to some of the ways in which the dependency network becomes differentially mediated by the local environment within which it is embedded. The chapter is concerned with the context within which the voluntary sector needs to be examined, and discusses the substantive issues arising from the data analysis.
