Policy Making And Analysis: Case Study Community Care.

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Policy Making And Analysis: Case Study Community Care

Abstract

The aim of this case study is to explore a pivotal piece of social policy in Britain. I have undertaken a case study on an important aspect of Health policy known as the community care movement. I will investigate the origins of the community care movement and analyze the resulting formation of The Community Care Act (1990). I will attempt to summarize and explain the implications, which were intended, and those which were consequential of the policy.

Introduction

Social policy usually tries to address the collective needs of groups who lack well -being or health. Social policy is a political process involving a wide array of actors, key to the policymaking arena are elected politicians who are members of the government and the cabinet. However the role of globalization and perhaps more specifically the europeanization, of British governance is becoming more evident in the policy procedure.

The provision of social services is an integrated and dynamic process. Titmuss in his inaugural lecture of 1951 suggested it was based on;

"...Services, both statutory and voluntary, with the moral values implicit in