ABSTRACT
This chapter evaluates the content of Community Care Plans (CCPs) to see if their content provides evidence about the nature of the separate systems of management, politics and market and the interaction of this systems with planning activity. Government has said that the process of producing CCPs is an important opportunity for policy consultation with users. The activity taking place in the production of local CCPs is only a small part of total government planning activity. Documents can function as items of self description, presenting the opportunity to a group of actors to make a calculated statement about themselves. Government documents contain both explicit and implicit values and logics, sometimes they are a source of conflict between the groups of actors having power over the production process. A key aim for the researcher of documents is often to discover the logics and discursive forms emerging from the merger of actors and cultural values and the production of a text.
