ABSTRACT
The channelling projects commissioned in 1980 were to conform either to a 'basic' or a 'complex' model. The former integrates the case management and regulatory functions as do the orthodox channelling projects. The channelling projects funded by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) programme of 1980 are too new to provide much hard evidence. Both in channelling and community care, it was expected that the more effective co-ordination of resources for individual clients would lead to their redeployment around new priorities without costly duplication. Like community care, channelling projects and their antecedents attempt to assess clients' care plans from a broader perspective. The DHHS statements of less global objectives also show the approach to have much in common with community care: 'increasing access to a wider range of services. However, most of the objectives certainly are as relevant to community care as to channelling.
