ABSTRACT

This chapter examines how the statutory sector can act to translate and transform care and policy outcomes within locally-embedded networks of care, and the impact this may have on the voluntary sector. It then explores the ways in which restructuring has become manifest in shifting power relationships within the statutory sector, relationships between the statutory and informal sectors, and what this may mean for voluntary organisations located within the dependency network. Care restructuring and the changing locus of care has effected a move away from the focus on bio-medical models towards social models of care. There is an expectation that local authorities will implement joint-planning procedures, involving both statutory and informal agencies concerned with the provision and delivery of community-based care. At locality level, joint-planning, involving consultation between the statutory, voluntary and private sectors has been promoted by Government as the key mechanism for the production of pro-active community care plans.