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Service Delivery at the Regional Level …

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2024

Ivan Beringer
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The aim of this Paper is to delineate a number of principles related to the effective delivery of welfare services at a ‘regional’ level. Regional level is used in this Paper in a general sense to distinguish ‘community’ based planning from planning at State or Federal level (or planning at an interpersonal, agency, specific field or societal level). No attempt is made to distinguish the precise characteristics of the regional level, but in detailed operationalised planning related to a specific area clear distinctions need to be made between the various planning levels and between the particular services being provided at each level.

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Children Australia , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , February 1976 , pp. 28 - 38
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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