Social Welfare in East Lothian 1945-2000:
The Promotion of Social Welfare in Communities

David K. Affleck.

The dawn of the 21st century saw two monuments to the Victorian era still standing but with boarded up windows and an air of desolation: Prestonkirk (East Linton) and Wedderburn (Inveresk) Poorhouses, had long since ceased being used for their original purpose . They were examples of the marked change that took place in the last thirty years of the century, a change accelerated by the introduction of the National Health Service and Community Care Act of 1990 which posed the challenge of providing care to those in need where they lived, thus diminishing the need for people to have to move into residential care.

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