Residential Care

Residential Care

A Reader in Current Theory and Practice
1980, Pages 3-12
Residential Care

CHAPTER 1 - CRITICISMS AND POSITIVE ASPECTS OF RESIDENTIAL CARE

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This chapter highlights the criticisms and positive aspects of residential care. Residential care is one of the most costly of personal social service provisions, and cost-benefit arguments have been used as a means of questioning the continuing provision at present levels, particularly in times of economic constraint. Nearly half of all expenditure on personal social services is spent on residential care and it is a labor-intensive service. Capital costs have to be added to current expenditure on salaries and running costs. Large sums of money are tied up by agencies' ownership of large properties or in financing purpose-built establishments. The cost of social work support, advertising, administration, and research are not calculated as a figure per child to be added to the professional foster parents' salary and allowance. In contrast, the costs per head for residential care include subsidiary expenditure such as maintenance and material degeneration, clerical and administrative staff salaries, and the items more central to the caring function.

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