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Drawing on the history of social care, international comparisons and lived experience, this vital book outlines a different vision of social care as an essential part of England's economic and social infrastructure that enables people to live good lives.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Humphries, Richard, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2022.
Temas:
Social service > England.
Service social > Angleterre.
MEDICAL / Caregiving.
Social service
England
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • List of figures
  • 1 Introduction
  • Promises, promises
  • Social care
  • the price of success?
  • Falling behind
  • Who cares?
  • The human costs
  • Why I wrote this book
  • How this book is structured
  • 2 A brief history: how we got here
  • In need of care and attention
  • the 1940s
  • In sickness and in health
  • Going private
  • 'You've never had it so good'
  • How many false dawns?
  • Towards a new century
  • Follow the money
  • Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
  • 3 Understanding social care
  • What is it?
  • Who gets care and why?
  • A tale of two systems
  • For the few, not the many
  • Can you help me please?
  • The money maze
  • The social care pound
  • Who pays?
  • Not free at the point of use
  • A matter of opinion
  • In conclusion
  • 4 Learning from the past
  • Non, je ne regrette rien?
  • Labour and the National Care Service, 1997 to 2010
  • Coalition government, 2010 to 2015: Dilnot and the Care Act
  • Conservative government, 2015 to 2021
  • A final fix?
  • Cycles of failure
  • Learning the lessons
  • Lesson 1: Ask the right questions
  • Lesson 2: Get the timing right
  • Lesson 3: Aim for cross-party cooperation rather than consensus
  • Lesson 4: Improve public awareness of social care
  • Lesson 5: Don't begin with the hard stuff
  • Lesson 6: Avoid paralysis by analysis
  • Lesson 7: Take a long-term view
  • Lesson 8: Make a positive case for change
  • Lesson 9: Encourage realistic expectations
  • 5 Learning from abroad
  • A case of English exceptionalism?
  • Continental Europe
  • Scandinavia
  • Japan
  • Australia
  • Spending compared: apples and pears?
  • And the answer is?
  • Social care's zombie policy
  • 6 Who cares?
  • Care in the time of coronavirus
  • The job of care
  • Brexit and immigration
  • Women's work?
  • 'I'm only a carer'
  • The professional and the personal
  • A quantum of care
  • From policy neglect to a people plan
  • 7 A 1948 moment? The politics and process of reform
  • A new Beveridge?
  • Doing policy-making differently
  • 1: Clarity of purpose
  • 2: Agreeing the basics
  • design principles for better care
  • 3: Co-produced policy-making
  • 4: Cathedral thinking
  • A new road to reform
  • 8 A new future for social care
  • Does the cap fit?
  • The economic and social case for care
  • A universal service
  • and its limits
  • The ties that bind
  • a new social contract
  • A new design and delivery model
  • A new funding settlement
  • Conclusion
  • Postscript
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • Back Cover

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