personal social services

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personal social services

Personal care services provided to vulnerable people in the UK—e.g., those with special needs due to old age or physical or mental disability, and children in need of care and protection.

Examples
Residential care homes for the elderly, home help and home care services, and social services that help and support a wide range of people.

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A key question in this discussion was how this new combination of skills, falling under the generic title of social work, related to other personal social services, whether in the type of social care offered or the division of responsibility among voluntary organisations, families' own resources and community provision.

The changing context of child and family social work

In 2006, 46.2% of all Local Authority business divisions were active in the sector of health and welfare and provided personal social services (Delitheou, 2006).

Local structures and social policies: design and use of services in the case of a typical urban Greek municipality

The attitudes of social workers who provide personal social services as well as material assistance to economically disadvantaged clients was mainly negative in Weiss's (2004) study described earlier.

Attitudes of social work students toward clients with basic needs

Labour will spend more on debt interest next year - pounds 26bn - than on transport (pounds 20 bn), housing and environment (pounds 16 bn), personal social services (pounds 23bn) and more than is raised by the council tax (pounds 21bn).

Letter: Wasted chance

The Training Organisation for Personal Social Services (TOPSS), the body leading on training and education for social care, said the industry needs thousands of workers in the next 10 years to prevent a major crisis.

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The partnership includes representatives of the Learning and Skills Council Coventry and Warwickshire; the Training Organisation for Personal Social Services; Warwickshire and Coventry Social Services; local colleges and training providers; the NHS and other local care employers.

BUSINESS LIFE: Care workers getting themselves qualified

10% increase in funding for personal social services.

Care homes crisis: What the government thinks: Our questions answered ...; In July the ECHO handed Prime Minister Tony Blair a dossier highlighting the crisis facing care homes in Liverpool. We included a list of hard-hitting questions. They were passed to health minister Stephen Ladyman who today replies

Coordination and teamwork in the health and personal social services. In S.

A model for interdisciplinary collaboration

The project was set up two years ago by the Training Organisation for Personal Social Services (TOPSS) and the training body now wants to review the programme.

Progress seminar on TOPSS

National spending on personal social services will rise from pounds 11.4 billion this year to pounds 14.6 billion in 2005-6.

Council to pay for beds crisis

The lens has shifted more recently to the voluntary sector and women's role in the personal social services, to which voluntary organisations have historically laid strong claim.

Governments and voluntary sector welfare: historians' perspectives

The recent Priorities for Action Document, from the Department of Health and Personal Social Services, details its objectives for the year 2001/2002.

Victims of child sex abuse like Anne must get help they need; IN PERSON Dominica McGowan