Adult Social Care

ISBN-13: 9781447316169 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 76 str.

Iain Ferguson; Michael Lavalette

Opis

Adult social care in Britain has faced many crises over recent decades. Revelations of horrific abuse, the collapse of major private home care providers, abject failures of inspection and regulation, and uncertainty over how long-term care of older people should be funded have all given rise to serious public concern. The contributors to this volume debate the current state of adult social care and offer a historical overview of services and examine recent developments in the field. They conclude with a look at the prospects for adult social care and social work in an era of seemingly never-ending austerity measures.
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Spis treści

Series Editors’ Introduction; The crisis in adult social care ~ lead essay by Iain Ferguson and Michael Lavalette; The Big Society debate and the social care crisis ~ response by Bill Jordan; How the market fails social care ~ response by Mark Lymbery; The crisis in social care: deepening the analysis ~ response by Dexter Whitfield; Challenging the market and the state ~ response by Ian Hood; Personalisation: the experience in Glasgow ~ response by Brian Smith; Supporting informal carers ~ response by Claire Cairns; Some concluding remarks ~ Iain Ferguson and Michael Lavalette; References.