From Welfare to Wellbeing: The future of social care

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These contributors outline a radically different vision for social care in 2020.

Social care in the future should seek to promote wellbeing by empowering individuals and their communities. The contributors to this book call for high quality, outcome-orientated services with a predominant focus on prevention.

This report proposes fundamental changes in the relationships between central and local government and the NHS.

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