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More needs to be done to examine how risk can be transferred to people using services as they assume increasing control over their care, according to research.

A Social Care Institute for Excellence paper on the future of adult care questions whether people using services have enough information to make informed decisions about the level of risk they are prepared to assume.

The document, which contains the views of almost 1,000 service users, practitioners and others, says the adult green paper's ambition of personalised services would involve some risk being transferred to users and their carers.

Developing Social Care: the Past, the Present and the Future from www.scie.org.uk/publications/adults