June 27, 2007
The participation of adult service users, including older people, in developing social care
The guide draws on the following types of social care knowledge:
- Service user knowledge based on the expertise of service users who participated in the consultation events held by Shaping Our Lives and the Centre for Citizen Participation.
- Organisational and practitioner knowledge based on the experiences of people working in the organisations who gave us information for the practice survey which was subsequently used to compile the Practice Examples.
- Policy community knowledge derived from material produced by different government departments and national organisations.
- Research knowledge derived from the collective experiences of the project team and from the literature identified in the literature review. (Pawson et al, 2003)