§ Mr. Pavittasked the Secretary of State for Social Services when guidelines will be sent to local authorities and health authorities about the planning of health and personal social services in the coming year.
§ Mr. MoyleMy Department is today issuing planning guidelines for health and personal social services in England. A copy, together with copies of the covering circulars to local and health authorities, will be placed in the Library. The guidelines reaffirm the general priorities set out in "The Way Forward" issued in September 1977, update and clarify previous guidelines and set out planning activities for 1978–79 and the manpower and resource assumptions on which they should be based.