FUTURE OF SOCIAL CARE

From Problem to Rights-Based Sustainable Solution

AvPeter Beresford,Colin Slasberg

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-01-09
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781035332106

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Peter Beresford, OBE, Visiting Professor, University of East Anglia and Co-Chair of Shaping Our Lives, UK and Colin Slasberg, Independent Researcher and Consultant in Social Care, UK

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A’s a person with disabilities who has worked on care policies internationally, I found this book thought-provoking, insightful and inspiring. It delivers a thorough analysis, gradually peeling through the complex layers of UK social care and powerfully raising awareness about its critical pitfalls and the related political economy. The commitment to elevating service users’ voices and giving visibility to their perspectives is commendable. The book is UK-based, but it has international resonance, given common challenges facing care systems worldwide. Lessons from the UK experience and the rights-based paradigm shift proposed offer a policy foundation for other contexts and enrich ongoing discussions about care systems reform globally.’

Innehållsförteckning

Contents: Foreword David Brindle Introduction to The Future of Social Care PART I SOCIAL CARE IN THE UK: HOW IT WORKS AND HOW IT GOT HERE 1. Social care: the policy progress forgot 2. Sowing the seeds of dysfunction: the 1948 settlement 3. Rising awareness and falling achievement 4. The modern era, part one: the truth about eligibility 5. The modern era, part two: smoke, mirrors and elixirs 6. The social care funding fiasco PART II AN AGENDA FOR SOCIAL CARE CHANGE 7. Towards person-centred practice 8. A paradigm for an international approach to a rights-based system 9. Blueprint for a person-centred system to deliver the rights-based paradigm 10. Resistance to change PART III A CHANGING WORLD DRIVING CHANGE IN SOCIAL CARE 11. Renewing social care 12. Towards sustainable social care and independent living IndexReferences

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