1.   A statutory duty on local councils to provide integrated child care services for the under-fives.

2.   And it establishes care trusts and sets out legislation on long-term care excluding nursing care from community care services.

3.   But it had a profound effect on the child care service of the time.

4.   Good community care services work best where skilled professionals work comfortably hand-in-hand with unskilled staff, families, neighbours and voluntary organizations.

5.   It briefly outlines activities such as helplines, respite care services and consultation on community care proposals.

6.   Older people are the largest group of consumers of community care services.

7.   The aura of compulsion in the public child care services has been extensively analysed in recent years.

8.   They could not cope even with very enhanced staffing levels and very supportive community care services.

9.   We will provide further funding for voluntary organisations to play their vital part in the development of community care services.