The Future of Social Care

Peter Beresford and Colin Slasberg

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Abstract: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Foreword by David Brindle In the face of major global demographic change, social care policy and practice are in urgent need of radical reform and reassessment. Rising poverty, inequality and pressure on local communities internationally, are also increasing the urgent need for reform. Drawing on the crisis-ridden UK experience as a case-study, this highly original book identifies the limits of the traditional welfare state in taking forward policy for the twenty-first century. The proposals amount to a renewed approach to social care, based on the philosophy of independent living as originally developed by the international disabled people’s movement and subsequently embodied in a United Nations treaty applicable to all in need of care and support. Despite wide international sign up since adoption in 2008 there is little evidence of any nation successfully delivering. For the first time, this book offers both a blueprint for an environmentally sustainable, rights-based approach to social care and a practical route to achieving it.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
ISBN: 9781803923000
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Social care: the policy progress forgot , pp 9-22

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Ch 2 Sowing the seeds of dysfunction: the 1948 settlement , pp 23-31

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Ch 3 Rising awareness and falling achievement , pp 32-47

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Ch 4 The modern era, part one: the truth about eligibility , pp 48-65

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Ch 5 The modern era, part two: smoke, mirrors and elixirs , pp 66-79

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Ch 6 The social care funding fiasco , pp 80-95

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Ch 7 Towards person-centred practice , pp 97-106

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Ch 8 A paradigm for an international approach to a rights-based system , pp 107-122

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Ch 9 Blueprint for a person-centred system to deliver the rights-based paradigm , pp 123-134

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Ch 10 Resistance to change , pp 135-157

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Ch 11 Renewing social care , pp 159-171

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Ch 12 Towards sustainable social care and independent living , pp 172-183

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