Area Home Help and Home Care Staff Use of Time, 1978

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This study aimed to explore the time spent on various types of activity by Area Team based Home Help/Home Care Organisers, supervisors and clerical staff. There was concern about the proportion of time available to organisers and supervisors for visiting clients. Client visits are for the purpose of assessment and review.

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Variables Diaries were kept listing the following activities: 1. Visits to Home Help clients 2. Writing reports re visits to Home Help clients 3. Liaison on behalf of Home Help clients 4. Work allocation to Home Helps 5. Work relating to Home Help pay and client accounts 6. Home Help recruitment 7. Home Help support and supervision 8. Work relating to other services for which the Home Help/Care section had responsibility 9. Meetings 10. Miscellaneous activities.

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Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-1568-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=c629ea9b019efbfa7ce73a0f3ae7048d8b6b615a9ff26d2a441778d3bc18fff3
Provenance
Creator Lothian Region Regional Council, Department of Social Work
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 1981
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Representation
Language English
Discipline Social Sciences
Spatial Coverage Lothian Region; Scotland