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Caroline Ayanru Access to Social Work Practice Assignment No. 3 What problems was Community Care intended to solve? The ideological thinking behind Community Care was intended for the traditional groups who were under the care of the Social Service Departments, namely elderly persons, parents and families, adolescents, young children and those with physical mental handicaps and those with a history of mental illness including dementia, people with sensory impairment, drug and alcohol related disorder, people with progressive illness such as AIDS or MS. The Local Authority philosophy of care is to help people achieve as normal a life as possible, fully integrated members of the community. The social services Act of 1970 was formed so that Local Authorities became responsible for providing services for the people in its local authority. Previously Social Services were divided into Departments; for example Children Services was different from Welfare Services, and Social Workers had to work independently...

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