Clients, Consumers or Citizens?

The Privatisation of Adult Social Care in England
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4473-5569-4
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 464 g

Adult social care was the first major social policy domain in England to be transferred from the state to the market. There is now a forty-year period to look back at to consider the thinking behind the strategy, the impacts on commissioners and providers of care, on the care workforce and on those who use care and support services.

In this book, Bob Hudson meticulously charts these shifts. He challenges the dominant market paradigm, explores alternative models for a post-Covid-19 future and locates the debate within the wider literature on political thinking and policy change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hudson, Bob

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1 Before the market

2 The emergence and consolidation of the market

3 Dilemmas in the commissioning of adult social care

4 Dilemmas in the provision of adult social care

5 State or market?

6 Context: funding and administration

7 Looking ahead: an ethical future for adult social care

8 COVID-19: the stress test of adult social care

9 Conclusion: making it change – morals, markets and power

Über Autor(innen)

Hudson, Bob
Bob Hudson is Visiting Professor in Public Policy at the University of Kent. Prior to this, he held posts at the universities of Durham, Leeds and Glasgow, and at New College Durham.