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Evaluation of the Operation and Impact of Free Personal Care

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Hexagon Research and Consulting would like to acknowledge the support provided by the following in preparing this evaluation report:

  • Sally Dick, Karen Irvine, Charlotte MacDonald and Chris Vickerman of Infusion Cooperative for carrying out the interviews with service users, carers, care home residents and relatives
  • Lucy Johnston Research for invaluable input in undertaking and analysing the results of the Local Authority Survey and the drafting /editing of this report.
  • Jim McCormack of Scottish Council Foundation for input into the literature review
  • The support of the Scottish Executive Project Manager and policy officers during all stages of the project
  • The input from the Research Reference Group
  • The considerable efforts in the set-up process for the case studies of local authority and voluntary sector staff in Angus, Argyll and Bute, Dumfries and Galloway, City of Edinburgh, Stirling and West Dunbartonshire.
  • All the local authority staff who took part in interviews and discussion groups
  • All the service users, carers, care home residents and relatives who were interviewed for this study
  • The time devoted by staff in all 32 local authorities who responded to the local authority surveys.

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