ABSTRACT
This book has aimed to convey the complexities of community care policy by analysing the diverse elements of community care. It set out to chart the broad changes in community in modern Britain, and situate them in the context of social policy and the overarching ideological environment. This was in order to accurately locate the crucial interrelationships between community care, ideology and social policy, and to identify key processes and legislation transforming decision-making structures in community care. Finally, it has sought to identify and assess major issues of policy and institutional changes, and their respective impacts upon community care user groups.
