On your second point I'd have to say that you need to diferntiate between
internal structures and the service. The view we adopted was that clients are
clients of Adult or Child Social Services, not some artificial North/South or
Specialist area teams.
Anything organisational is likely to change anyway.
One of the major benefits from an ESCR is joined up working in different areas
and locations (i.e that the Hospital social work teams have access to and
contribute to the same file as Older Adults or even Adults With Learning
Difficulties) and breaking down artifical service barriers.
In reality and law (and certainly from the perspective of the client) they want
to be dealing with Social Services, not jumping through hoops about being
transferred around teams.
Ian Richardson
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