Social Care in the UK's Four Nations : : Between Two Paradigms.

• Author: Needham, Catherine.
• TeilnehmendeR: Hall, Patrick.
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Sustainable care
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (227 pages)

The devolution of social care policy has led to key differences emerging between the UK's four care systems. This book presents research on the perspectives of social care policy makers within the UK's four care systems, concluding that when given equal capacity to reform, the systems in each nation may take radically different shapes.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Half-title -- Series page -- Social Care in the UK's Four Nations: Between Two Paradigms -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- Series editors' preface -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Comparing adult social care systems in the UK -- Introduction: from slow collapse to urgent crisis -- What is 'care'? -- Comparing care systems -- Twenty-five years of social care devolution -- Studying a care policy 'experiment': a realist approach -- Key tools for comparison -- Research design -- Analysis -- The structure of the book -- 2 What is social care policy for? -- Solving the 'problem' of care -- What is social care? -- What should social care policy do? -- Wellbeing -- Fairness -- Rights -- Quality -- Sustainability - for all? -- Conclusion -- 3 What is in crisis? The context of care policy in the four nations -- The care diamond -- What constitutes 'the 'crisis'? -- The 'crisis of demand' -- The 'crisis' of family -- The 'crisis' of the state -- The 'crisis' of the market -- The 'crisis' of community -- Conclusion: a differentiated crisis? -- 4 The mechanisms of social care reform -- Redistribute the costs of care -- Free personal care -- A funding cap -- Incremental change -- Ending risk-pooling -- Personalise support -- Support for unpaid carers -- Invest in prevention -- Integrate with health -- Professionalise the workforce -- Assessing progress -- Conclusion -- 5 The outcomes of social care reform -- Focus on outcomes -- Redistribute the costs of care -- Personalise support -- Support unpaid carers -- Invest in prevention -- Integrate with health -- Professionalise the workforce -- Who's best? -- Conclusion -- 6 Territorial policy communities: scale, style and scope -- Territorial policy communities -- Scale -- Style -- Scope -- Jurisdictional powers -- Agenda capacity.

Multi-level governance -- Centre-local relations -- Conclusion -- 7 The limits of social care reform -- Divergence and convergence -- Incremental versus transformative change -- The policy mix -- Standardised versus differentiated approaches to social care -- Paradigm 1: standardised care -- Paradigm 2: differentiated care -- Comparing the two paradigms -- Universalism versus particularism -- Conclusion -- 8 Conclusion: between care paradigms -- Convergence and divergence -- Success for whom? -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.