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      Models of carers: how do social care agencies conceptualise their relationship with informal carers?

      Journal of social policy

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          Carers occupy an ambiguous position within the social care system. Services are predominantly structured around the dependent rather than the carer, and this has important consequences for their delivery and evaluation. Many of the problems that arise in thinking about carer issues relate to confusion over the way the relationship between social care agencies and informal carers should be perceived. The paper outlines three models that provide frames of reference for this relationship: carers as resources; carers as co-workers; and carers as co-clients. The tensions between these are then used to explore the contradictions of policy in this field.

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          Journal
          J Soc Policy
          Journal of social policy
          0047-2794
          0047-2794
          Jan 1989
          : 18
          : 1
          Article
          10.1017/S0047279400017207
          10292254
          74413354-0c8d-4520-97eb-2d6b3d939745
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