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100			_aBalloch, Susan
245			_aSecuring quality in the mixed economy of care: difficulties in regulating training
260			_c2004
300			_ap.365-73.
362			_aOct
520			_aThis study explores issues about securing quality of provision in social care using evidence from research into training in the adult care sector in two English local authorities. It shows that progress towards securing a trained workforce is slow and explores reasons for this. It argues that since the government is making particular efforts to increase training in this sector, these data provide a good test case of the problems about using regulation to raise care standards. It concludes that significant progress is unlikely to be made in respect of training unless the impact of other factors, such as the occupational segregation of the workforce and contracting out, are also taken into account. - Reproduced.
650			_aSocial services
700			_aHill, Michael
700			_aBanks, Laura
773			_aSocial Policy and Society
909			_a63283
999			_c63283 _d63283