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Chapter 4 The mechanisms of social care reform

Chapter 4 and chapter 7 are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Two decades have passed since the devolution of social care policy, with key differences emerging between the UK’s four systems, but what impact have these differences had? This book presents for the first time research on...

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Main Authors: Needham, Catherine, Hall, Patrick
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Policy Press 2023
Subjects:
Ageing; Care regimes; Comparative care; Devolution; Social care
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPR Regional, state and other local government
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBP Health systems and services
Online Access:https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62479
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Summary:Chapter 4 and chapter 7 are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Two decades have passed since the devolution of social care policy, with key differences emerging between the UK’s four systems, but what impact have these differences had? This book presents for the first time research on the perspectives of social care policy makers on the four systems in which they operate and the ways in which they borrow from one another. Drawing on extensive interviews with national and local policy makers across the UK, the book raises vital questions about the role of ‘standardisation’ and ‘differentiation’ in social care, concluding that when given equal capacity to reform their respective systems, the regimes in each nation may take radically different shapes.

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