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© British Association of Social Workers

Trilateral Labour Markets, Pricing and the Demand for Personal Social Services

BRIAN BURKITT and B. M. BURKITT

Brian Burkitt is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Bradford and Brenda

Burkitt is Principal Lecturer in Social Work at Huddersfield Polytechnic.

Correspondence to Dr B. Burkitt, Department of Social and Economic Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP.

Summary

The authors examine recent trends in labour markets and employment experience, which have altered significantly the socio-economic characteristics of social work clients. They argue that these changes have reduced the relevance of proposals for the increased use of pricing and the introduction of vouchers in the provision of personal social services. The needs of clients are unlikely to be met by a further concentration of analytical attention on such largely unworkable proposals.


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