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Volume 8, Issue 1
1 February 2000
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Managing Community Care
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Review Article| February 01 2000

Transferring Local Authority Residential Homes to the Independent Sector: The Worcestershire Experience Available to Purchase

Doug Duckworth;
Doug Duckworth
Marchaven Consulting Ltd
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Catherine Driscoll
Catherine Driscoll
The Sale of Residential Homes, Worcestershire County Council
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2977-7119
Print ISSN: 1461-5436
© MCB UP Limited
2000
Managing Community Care (2000) 8 (1): 27–36.
https://doi.org/10.1108/14769018200000006

‘What is to be done with our residential homes?’ The article examines the approach taken by one authority to modernising run‐down homes on a fast track, while doing justice to the needs and anxieties of the staff and residents and without mortgaging the future.

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