Letters: Improvements in community care - The Guardian 16th May 2008

I am one of many idealistic "baby boomers" who have worked in social care for over 30 years (Polly Toynbee, May 13). We have struggled with woefully inadequate funding, unending government directives, bureaucracy galore, and media criticism, but don't understate the huge achievements. Compare 1990 (under a Tory government) with 2008. There are hundreds of thousands of elderly and disabled people, and others with learning disabilities or mental-health problems, who have been supported in their own homes or the community, rather than in the old institutions and care homes, most with real success.

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