en English Care Services for the Elderly: Social and economic impact of transfer European Services Strategy Unit : Outsourcing/PPP Library : Transfers and Externalisation :Care Services for the Elderly: Social and economic impact of transfer This report is the culmination of the centre’s research, commissioned by RAGE and Birmingham UNISON, into the issues surrounding the privatisation of care services for the elderly in Birmingham. The report contains a comprehensive analysis of the wide-ranging social and economic implications of the transfer of care services to the private sector, and demonstrates the inherently financial nature of council proposals. commissioned by Residents Action Group for the Elderly (RAGE) and Birmingham UNISON (July 2001). Dexter Whitfield European Services Strategy Unit, Duagh, Camp, Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. residential care home care Birmingham in-house service quality of care savings value for money local economy service users options appraisal care packages strategic vision elderly care market resource centres council provision home closures Community OrganisationsGovernment BodiesTrade Unions Transfers and Externalisation XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition) Level Double-A Conformance to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 Copyright © 1998-2012 European Services Strategy Unit text/html HTML 2008-03-29T12:47:13Z Created 2008-03-29T12:47:18Z Modified