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THE BASIS OF CRITICISMS Community Care & Care in the Community:
Community Care was gradually introduced, as a coherent strategy, in the 1970's. The idea was to bring together the various statutory and voluntary service to provide improved support to disadvantaged people of all kinds. The basic principle was to 'include' all people in normal community activity and to obtain all their services, support and every reasonable opportunity, within normal, everyday community resources and services. Those who trust books and legislative accounts, may be deluded into thinking that this concept was invented by an intellectuals, enlightened politicians, or some bureaucrat in the halls of government. Other will believe that the concepts were developed by professionals. Well there is a bit of truth in each of these. Each made their contribution, in its refinement as an idea, but also in diluting the potency of the original initiatives. This 'changing attitude' arose out of a number of voluntary projects and 'political' campaigns, which were concerned for people with disabilities and suffering injustice of various kinds. Many of these campaigns were started by people with disabilities, family carers of those who's suffering injustice, others who had experience injustice and disadvantage (like myself) and were 'surviving'. Thankfully, these groups increasingly included those who had benefitted from relative 'advantages' in life, but who were also particularly insightful, often by accident, into the stark prejudices they perceived. They recognised that most ordinary people and most professionals, were just unable to 'understand' the fundamental issues that were (and are) being raised. They acted as 'translators' and 'credible communicators'. Read More |
