Lewellyn SAccounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, (UK), 1998 Vol 11 No 3  Start page: 292 No of pages: 17 Looks at how responsibility is being devolved along with United Kingdom social services budgets to client services managers, team managers and frontline care workers. 

More co-ordination and planning is needed between the health and social services to ensure the smooth transfer of older people back to their homes after a stay in hospital, according to a report from the Social Services Inspectorate. The report, based on findings from inspections of eight local authority areas, reveals that the quality of work with patients and carers, both leading up to and after leaving hospital, is often good. 

The high-profile report from the Social Exclusion Unit in the Cabinet Office puts high priority on joining together the many initiatives set running in the last eighteen months by the new Government.The report “Bringing Britain Together - A National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal” sets out a three point plan of action to improve up to 4000 of the poorest areas of Britain.The first part of the strategy is to draw together new national policies
like the New Deal, action on schoolS, crime and health.The second is the announcement of an extra 800 million pounds which communities themselves will decide how to spend, under a New Deal for Communities.