The Social Care Practitioner as Assessor: 'People, Relationships and Professional Judgement'.
The research in this paper aimed to reflect on English social care practitioners' accounts of their assessment practices, and includes the point of view of disabled people who are assessed. The research took place just after the implementation of the 2014 Care Act, which focuses both on the 'well-be...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Social Work Vol. 48; no. 7; pp. 1910 - 1929 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Oct2018
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