Drawing on key research, government policies and real-life case studies, the book assists health and social care professionals to work more effectively together in order to improve services for users and carers.The health and social care divide: explains why partnerships are important and what helps/hinders partnership working;reviews the legal and policy framework, providing a chronological overview and placing current initiatives in their historical and social policy context;summarises existing research findings with regard to key health and social care policy debates;uses case studies to...

This volume brings together for the first time a substantial group of advocates and critics of the personalization agenda in English social services in order to debate key issues and attempt to find common ground. Practitioners, service users, and academics offer differing perspectives on the practicalities and controversies associated with the implementation of personalized approaches, which the book s conclusion then examines in order to attempt to make sense of the divergent accounts and find a value-based approach to personalized care that all sides could agree on."

This third edition of the leading textbook on personalization in social welfare payment systems in the United Kingdom brings the analysis wholly up to date, taking into account the major changes enacted by the Coalition Government since 2009 and pointing the way to the likely future, when all social welfare payments and support will be delivered directly, via a personal budget. This close examination of the theory and practice will be essential to scholars, policy makers, and practitioners.

This third edition of the leading textbook on personalization in social welfare payment systems in the United Kingdom brings the analysis wholly up to date, taking into account the major changes enacted by the Coalition Government since 2009 and pointing the way to the likely future, when all social welfare payments and support will be delivered directly, via a personal budget. This close examination of the theory and practice will be essential to scholars, policy makers, and practitioners.

Austerity measures have substantially changed the landscape for social and health care in the United Kingdom. Fully updated to reflect key developments under the Coalition and subsequent governments, this third edition of Understanding Health and Social Care provides a current guide to the increasingly important partnership between health and social care workers. Jon Glasby combines practical information about welfare systems with key theoretical material to present a complete picture of these overlapping fields with respect to a range of adult service user groups. Drawing on...

Austerity measures have substantially changed the landscape for social and health care in the United Kingdom. Fully updated to reflect key developments under the Coalition and subsequent governments, this third edition of Understanding Health and Social Care provides a current guide to the increasingly important partnership between health and social care workers. Jon Glasby combines practical information about welfare systems with key theoretical material to present a complete picture of these overlapping fields with respect to a range of adult service user groups. Drawing on...