Catherine Needham, Kerry Allen, and Kelly Hall
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781447319221
- eISBN:
- 9781447319252
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447319221.003.0010
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Economy
Chapter ten considers these issues, exploring micro-enterprise funding models, which rely heavily on individualised purchasing by people rather than local government contracts. This chapter focuses ...
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Chapter ten considers these issues, exploring micro-enterprise funding models, which rely heavily on individualised purchasing by people rather than local government contracts. This chapter focuses on four interlinked aspects of micro-enterprises which shape their effectiveness and their likely contribution to future care services. These are: visibility; financial viability; relationship with the local authority; and quality and regulation. These are a combination of factors which are internal and external to the micro-enterprises. They encompass some attributes or structures that the organisations have the power to change and others that lie outside of their control. The chapter concludes that micro-enterprises retain a reliance on formal institutions within the care system – local authorities, the Care Quality Commission – which can limit their scope to ‘break the mould’ when it comes to care and support.Less
Chapter ten considers these issues, exploring micro-enterprise funding models, which rely heavily on individualised purchasing by people rather than local government contracts. This chapter focuses on four interlinked aspects of micro-enterprises which shape their effectiveness and their likely contribution to future care services. These are: visibility; financial viability; relationship with the local authority; and quality and regulation. These are a combination of factors which are internal and external to the micro-enterprises. They encompass some attributes or structures that the organisations have the power to change and others that lie outside of their control. The chapter concludes that micro-enterprises retain a reliance on formal institutions within the care system – local authorities, the Care Quality Commission – which can limit their scope to ‘break the mould’ when it comes to care and support.
