The modern era, part one: the truth about eligibility

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Chapter 4 in The Future of Social Care, 2023, pp 48-65 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter identifies the fundamental reason for the failure of all efforts to transform UK social care over the previous thirty years. We examine the power; ubiquity and perniciousness of the eligibility process. It is the modern manifestation of the 1948 settlement. The chapter provides an in-depth analysis of how eligibility actually works and how it contrasts sharply with central and local government narratives. It is a classic case of ‘street level bureaucracy’; where official policies are so unfit for purpose that operational staff create their own.

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