Planning the Social Services

One of the consequences of the Seebohm inspired reorganisation of the personal social services has been a marked increase in the attention and resources directed to management and planning within the local authority social service departments. One suspects that, at least in terms of speed and scale of its development, this outcome of reorganisation was an unexpected one. Nevertheless, policy decisions have encouraged the trend, none more so perhaps than the request made by the Department of Health and Social Security in August 1972 that local authorities should prepare plans covering their personal social service capital and revenue programmes for the period 1 April 1973 to 31 March 1983. In one sense the circular Department of Health and Social Security 35/72 represents a resumption of the ten year planning processes for health and community care initiated in 1963, but it can equally be seen as a new milestone in the development of the post-Seebohm services. The new planning process offers an opportunity to exploit administrative changes that have taken place in both the local authorities and in the National Health Service: it marks a changing relationship between the Department of Health and Social Security (hereafter referred to as the Department) and local authority departments

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