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Eligibility criteria: lessons from Fair Access to Care Services

Author: Elaine Aspinwall-Roberts

Updated Date: 5 April 2016

Publication Date: 11 August 2014

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Introduction

About this research review This research review considers what has been learned from the Fair Access to Care Services system of determining eligibility for community care services since its introduction in England in 2003. It considers research into the fairness of FACS, how easy social workers have found to interpret it, how it has shaped […]

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Full reference for this document:

Aspinwall-Roberts, E (2014) Eligibility criteria: lessons from Fair Access to Care Services. Research.
Community Care Inform
[online]
https://adults.ccinform.co.uk/research/research-review/
[accessed: 19 June 2018]

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