The author is Chairman of the Cambridgeshire Society for the Blind and was formerly Director of Social Services in Cambridgeshire. He works now for a leading firm of management consultants. At a recent meeting, organised by the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, be brought the light of his present experaence in advising local authorities on the possible implementation of the government's community care policies and the Griffith's recommendations to bear on the particular problems in provision of services to the visually impaired.
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Community Care: Agenda for Action, Report to the Secretary o f State for Social Services (the Griffiths Report), 1988, HMSO .
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* Caring for People: Community Care in the next decade and beyond, Paper presented to Parliament by the Secretaries of State for Health, Social Security, Wales and Scotland in November 1989 , Cm. 849, HMSO, 1989.