Gaining Our Voice: The Developing Pattern of Good Practice in User Involvement

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The knowledge and experience users and professionals have gained in user involvement since the implementation of community care is leading to development of good practice models, covering strong user-controlled organisations and redefinition of the professional role in enabling and valuing user expertise. Such user organisations use community development approaches and have a role to play in community care as development agencies and service providers. This model reflects a new social policy agenda and should be part of any initiatives to implement these policies.