Download or read book From Poor Law to Community Care written by Means, Robin and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent community care changes have raised issues about the changing role of the public and voluntary sectors in the provision of social care to elderly people. The purpose of this book is to set these debates in the context of the historical growth of welfare services from 1939 through to 1971.