recipient of services

Recipients of services should also have easy access to information on service providers and their services.

We must also involve all recipients of services in the planning and management of such services.

Disabled people have the capacity and the right to be productive contributors to society but are often perceived as passive recipients of services.

Another, more fundamental lack is the absence of a view of the recipients of services as social participants.

The cost for Wildlife Services operational activities is shared, using federal funds and those supplied by the recipients of services.

The national points of contact are to gather information concerning rights and requirements in the services sector for service providers and the recipients of services.

That is, they seek to engage with the citizens as owners of and participants in the creation of public services, not as passive recipients of services.

We believe it is not only a viable option but the only option that can lead to significant changes in our status, as recipients of services and as citizens.

Governments attempting to implement change in this area often encounter entrenched organisational resistance from powerful providers and from recipients of services who benefit from the status quo.

They should be examined periodically and adjusted they are inequitable, so that owners of similar houses get similar tax bills, meaning that recipients of services share the burden equally.

It is thus important to use language which reflects a real change of attitude to people who for so long have been unwilling recipients of services designed largely for society's comfort and not theirs.

Its proposals are workable and provide a framework for services which can be applied at all levels from the government at the top right down to the professional worker in direct contact with the recipient of services.

In many cases practical steps are being taken to base services on a recovery model, although a range of obstacles, concerns and criticisms have been raised both by service providers and by recipients of services.

Recipients of services, whether they are referred to as users, clients or patients, are entitled to be consulted about their treatment and care and to participate as fully as possible in decisions about their lives.

Total integration of all mentally retarded people into the community remains the goal of the department regardless of the fact that some of the recipients of services and guardians acting on their behalf, do not wish this.

Traditionally, health and social services have muddled along without paying much attention at all to what the recipients of services think, and only now, in the 1990s, are services beginning to consider developing quality assurance and quality-monitoring programmes.

Insurance reimbursement for mental health services involves the designation of the recipient of services as mentally ill, or more specifically a label is assigned from the DSM-IV, the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental illness.

The Court of Justice has examined several complaints of discrimination against nationals of other Member States as recipients of services, for example, to reduced or free entry to museums and other public buildings and reductions in transport fares.

In the early 1980s, funds from the state made up about 30 percent of the monies spent on all social services and pensions, while employers supplied about 40 percent; local governments, 15 percent; and the recipients of services, the remainder.

Whilst the European Court accepted in Luisi and Carbone that tourists as recipients of services fall within the scope of the EEC Treaty, nevertheless there was no express treaty provision dealing with tourism and the promotion thereof.

The Services Directive creates the fundamental framework for a higher degree of free movement of service providers, strengthens the rights of consumers as recipients of services and enhances the availability of information, assistance and transparency with regard to service providers and their services.

Although these efforts have taken quite different forms in different parts of the world, most have been based on the broad underlying philosophy that social development goals are likely to be achieved more readily if those groups most directly affected (local communities or recipients of services) participate in the planning and delivery of services.