| Chapter 7
Conclusions |
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| Modernising
community care |
| "We
want better services, faster decisions and integrated
working between agencies. If agencies respond positively
and quickly, they will modernise community care." |
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| 7.1 The way
community care services are managed and delivered must
change. We want better services, faster decisions, and
integrated working between agencies. |
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7.2 The main responsibility for achieving
that change rests with statutory organisations who must
work together to achieve the shared goals for community
care. We will:
- point the way;
- help change by
targeting resources on firm proposals for change;
- help agencies to
introduce new ideas; and
- monitor progress
regularly through reviews, surveys, inspections,
community care plans and visits by the Community
Care Implementation Unit.
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| 7.3 We set
out the way ahead in community care in the action plan in
chapters 2 to 4 and, for the longer term, the measures to
assure quality and effectiveness in chapter 5. |
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| 7.4 We would
also welcome views on the need for new powers set out in
chapter 6. This should not prevent agencies from
developing joint working within their existing powers,
which already offer considerable scope. |
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| Modernising
community care |
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| 7.5 There is
widespread support for change. If agencies respond
positively and quickly to the action plan, they will be
taking forward the necessary modernisation of community
care and renewing people's faith in something which too
often fails them in practice. The approach of the
Millennium and the Scottish Parliament offer a timely
opportunity to demonstrate that community care is right
in practice as well as in principle. |
