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Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. Public Money Volume 6, 1987 - Issue 4
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Residential care for the elderly: A billion‐pound experiment in policy‐making

Patricia Day Senior research officer of social policy at the centre for the study of social policy, University of Bath
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Rudolf Klein Professor of social policy at the centre for the study of social policy, University of Bath
Pages 19-24 | Published online: 07 Jan 2009
 
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Abstract

By a bureaucratic accident, the ‘board and lodging’ allowance of the supplementary benefits system has enabled central government to finance private residential and nursing home care for the elderly. The result is an unintended policy experiment which raises fundamental questions about the purposes and methods of the Welfare State.

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