Bettina Cass
Biographic Data
| ID | 6106735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bettina Cass |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bettina |
| FAMILY NAME | Cass |
| SIGNATURE | CASS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 190 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Capturing the centrality of age and life-course stage in the provision of unpaid care
The purpose of this article is to construct a new theoretical framework of care-giving that places age, and the life-course stage of carers, at the centre of conceptual understanding and analysis. Although care theory is heavily gendered, it pays far less attention to age differences among the diverse participants in care-giving. This article argues that the age and life-course stage of carers is central to differential pathways into care-giving,…
Grandparents raising grandchildren
Grandparents who have primary responsibility for raising their grandchildren are increasingly on research and social policy agendas in Australia and elsewhere. Little is known, however, about the diversity in circumstances and experiences among grandparents in these caring relationships, and assumptions about the homogeneity of grandparents are often embedded in policy prescriptions and academic discourse. This paper explores the experiences and …
Combining Paid Work and Family Care
As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from both families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people.At the same time both women and men are expected to increase and lengthen their participation in paid work, which makes combining caring and working a burning issue for social and employment policy and economic sustainability. International discussion about the reconciliation of work and …
Information Provision to Grandparent Kinship Carers
Grandparent kinship care is a growing policy concern in Australia. Availability of appropriate, timely, and up-to-date information on payments and allowances, support services, and children's needs, is an important factor in determining whether grandparent carers, and the children in their care, receive the support they need. While it is known that custodial grandparents in Australia have trouble gaining access to information and support, relativ…
Voice and choice for users and carers? Developments in patterns of care for older people in Australia, England and Finland
This article identifies key trends over the last 20 years in residential and community care for older people in England, Finland and Australia, investigating the extent of ‘de-institutionalisation’, ‘privatisation’ and ‘individualisation’. The concepts of collective and individual ‘voice’ and ‘choice’ are used to interrogate the roles of collective and individual actors, older people and carers, in influencing policy formulation. While these thre…
The marketisation of care
The use of markets and market mechanisms to deliver care services is growing in both liberal and social democratic welfare states. This article examines debates and policies concerning the marketisation of eldercare and childcare in Sweden, England and Australia. It shows how market discourses and practices intersect with, reinforce or challenge traditions and existing policies and examines whether care markets deliver user empowerment and greate…
From Assistance to Prevention
Young people who provide unpaid care for a relative with chronic illness or disability are a growing focus of public policy and research in Australia and internationally. Support services for these young carers have emerged, but not enough is known about their effectiveness. This article develops an analytical framework that categorizes young carer support services according to their goals and the types of intervention provided. The analytical fr…
Children and young people as active agents in care-giving
So that's how I found out I was a young carer and that I actually had been a carer most of my life’. Identifying and supporting hidden young carers
A common theme in the literature on care-giving is the issue of ‘hidden’ carers, that is, people who undertake caring roles and responsibilities, yet do not identify themselves as carers. One reason people do not recognise themselves as carers relates to the nature of the caring relationship. When providing care for a family member, intra-familial bonds of love and reciprocity do not encourage parties to view the relationship as anything other th…
Exploring Social Care
Mainstream literature on paid care for children, frail elderly people and people with chronic illness or disability, and unpaid care provided usually by family members within households and kin networks tends to establish dichotomies: formal/informal, commodified/non‐commodified. Recent feminist literature rejects these dichotomies, developing models of social care in which the interconnections of paid and unpaid care are mapped within policy fra…
From meeting needs and establishing entitlements to enforcing obligations
Communities of Support or Communities of Surveillance and Enforcement in Welfare Reform Debates
Citizenship, Work, and Welfare
The Limits of the Public/Private Dichotomy
Journal Article THE LIMITS OF THE PUBLIC/PRIVATE DICHOTOMY: A COMMENT ON COADY & COADY Get access BETTINA CASS BETTINA CASS *Department of Social Work and Social Policy, University of SydneySydney NSW 2006 Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, Volume 6, Issue 1, April 1992, Pages 140–147, https://doi.org/10.1093/lawfam/6.1.140 Published: 01 April 199…
Unemployed in Australia
Women, Income Distribution and Housing Policy
The formulation of housing policies which will provide adequate, secure and affordable accommodation for women and their dependents must be based on an understanding of women's position in the income distribution and in the labour market. The objectives of this paper are to outline the changes in women's receipt of income in the period 1968–69 to 1981–82; the trends in the incidence of poverty for women-headed families and the trends in the housi…
Single Parent Families and Social Policies in Australia 1974–1982
Of the two major sources of income support for single parent families, social security transfers and earned income, there has been an increase in the proportion of families dependent on social security in the period 1974–1982, a period of recession and high unemployment. Over this period the value of income support for supporting parents has declined because of the non‐indexation of the child components of pensions and benefits. This article iden…
Australian Women
Why So Few? Women Academics in Australian Universities
This book had its genesis in the new wave of consciousness about women's position in society and the women's movement of the 1970s. Its aim is to contribute to the interest in and knowledge about Australian women through a study of a group who share the common situation of women in societies based on a sexual division of roles but who work in the particular locus of a university where they are a minority in both number and status
Working It Out Together
The marketisation of care
The use of markets and market mechanisms to deliver care services is growing in both liberal and social democratic welfare states. This article examines debates and policies concerning the marketisation of eldercare and childcare in Sweden, England and Australia. It shows how market discourses and practices intersect with, reinforce or challenge traditions and existing policies and examines whether care markets deliver user empowerment and greate…
Voice and choice for users and carers? Developments in patterns of care for older people in Australia, England and Finland
This article identifies key trends over the last 20 years in residential and community care for older people in England, Finland and Australia, investigating the extent of ‘de-institutionalisation’, ‘privatisation’ and ‘individualisation’. The concepts of collective and individual ‘voice’ and ‘choice’ are used to interrogate the roles of collective and individual actors, older people and carers, in influencing policy formulation. While these thre…
So that's how I found out I was a young carer and that I actually had been a carer most of my life’. Identifying and supporting hidden young carers
A common theme in the literature on care-giving is the issue of ‘hidden’ carers, that is, people who undertake caring roles and responsibilities, yet do not identify themselves as carers. One reason people do not recognise themselves as carers relates to the nature of the caring relationship. When providing care for a family member, intra-familial bonds of love and reciprocity do not encourage parties to view the relationship as anything other th…
Citizenship, Work, and Welfare
Grandparents raising grandchildren
Grandparents who have primary responsibility for raising their grandchildren are increasingly on research and social policy agendas in Australia and elsewhere. Little is known, however, about the diversity in circumstances and experiences among grandparents in these caring relationships, and assumptions about the homogeneity of grandparents are often embedded in policy prescriptions and academic discourse. This paper explores the experiences and …
Capturing the centrality of age and life-course stage in the provision of unpaid care
The purpose of this article is to construct a new theoretical framework of care-giving that places age, and the life-course stage of carers, at the centre of conceptual understanding and analysis. Although care theory is heavily gendered, it pays far less attention to age differences among the diverse participants in care-giving. This article argues that the age and life-course stage of carers is central to differential pathways into care-giving,…
Information Provision to Grandparent Kinship Carers
Grandparent kinship care is a growing policy concern in Australia. Availability of appropriate, timely, and up-to-date information on payments and allowances, support services, and children's needs, is an important factor in determining whether grandparent carers, and the children in their care, receive the support they need. While it is known that custodial grandparents in Australia have trouble gaining access to information and support, relativ…
Children and young people as active agents in care-giving
From Assistance to Prevention
Young people who provide unpaid care for a relative with chronic illness or disability are a growing focus of public policy and research in Australia and internationally. Support services for these young carers have emerged, but not enough is known about their effectiveness. This article develops an analytical framework that categorizes young carer support services according to their goals and the types of intervention provided. The analytical fr…
Exploring Social Care
Mainstream literature on paid care for children, frail elderly people and people with chronic illness or disability, and unpaid care provided usually by family members within households and kin networks tends to establish dichotomies: formal/informal, commodified/non‐commodified. Recent feminist literature rejects these dichotomies, developing models of social care in which the interconnections of paid and unpaid care are mapped within policy fra…
Communities of Support or Communities of Surveillance and Enforcement in Welfare Reform Debates
The Limits of the Public/Private Dichotomy
Journal Article THE LIMITS OF THE PUBLIC/PRIVATE DICHOTOMY: A COMMENT ON COADY & COADY Get access BETTINA CASS BETTINA CASS *Department of Social Work and Social Policy, University of SydneySydney NSW 2006 Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, Volume 6, Issue 1, April 1992, Pages 140–147, https://doi.org/10.1093/lawfam/6.1.140 Published: 01 April 199…
Unemployed in Australia
Single Parent Families and Social Policies in Australia 1974–1982
Of the two major sources of income support for single parent families, social security transfers and earned income, there has been an increase in the proportion of families dependent on social security in the period 1974–1982, a period of recession and high unemployment. Over this period the value of income support for supporting parents has declined because of the non‐indexation of the child components of pensions and benefits. This article iden…
Working It Out Together
Why So Few? Women Academics in Australian Universities
This book had its genesis in the new wave of consciousness about women's position in society and the women's movement of the 1970s. Its aim is to contribute to the interest in and knowledge about Australian women through a study of a group who share the common situation of women in societies based on a sexual division of roles but who work in the particular locus of a university where they are a minority in both number and status
Single Parent Families and Social Policies in Australia 1974–1982
Of the two major sources of income support for single parent families, social security transfers and earned income, there has been an increase in the proportion of families dependent on social security in the period 1974–1982, a period of recession and high unemployment. Over this period the value of income support for supporting parents has declined because of the non‐indexation of the child components of pensions and benefits. This article iden…
Australian Women
Women, Income Distribution and Housing Policy
The formulation of housing policies which will provide adequate, secure and affordable accommodation for women and their dependents must be based on an understanding of women's position in the income distribution and in the labour market. The objectives of this paper are to outline the changes in women's receipt of income in the period 1968–69 to 1981–82; the trends in the incidence of poverty for women-headed families and the trends in the housi…
Unemployed in Australia
The Limits of the Public/Private Dichotomy
Journal Article THE LIMITS OF THE PUBLIC/PRIVATE DICHOTOMY: A COMMENT ON COADY & COADY Get access BETTINA CASS BETTINA CASS *Department of Social Work and Social Policy, University of SydneySydney NSW 2006 Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, Volume 6, Issue 1, April 1992, Pages 140–147, https://doi.org/10.1093/lawfam/6.1.140 Published: 01 April 199…
Citizenship, Work, and Welfare
Communities of Support or Communities of Surveillance and Enforcement in Welfare Reform Debates
From meeting needs and establishing entitlements to enforcing obligations
Exploring Social Care
Mainstream literature on paid care for children, frail elderly people and people with chronic illness or disability, and unpaid care provided usually by family members within households and kin networks tends to establish dichotomies: formal/informal, commodified/non‐commodified. Recent feminist literature rejects these dichotomies, developing models of social care in which the interconnections of paid and unpaid care are mapped within policy fra…
So that's how I found out I was a young carer and that I actually had been a carer most of my life’. Identifying and supporting hidden young carers
A common theme in the literature on care-giving is the issue of ‘hidden’ carers, that is, people who undertake caring roles and responsibilities, yet do not identify themselves as carers. One reason people do not recognise themselves as carers relates to the nature of the caring relationship. When providing care for a family member, intra-familial bonds of love and reciprocity do not encourage parties to view the relationship as anything other th…
Children and young people as active agents in care-giving
Voice and choice for users and carers? Developments in patterns of care for older people in Australia, England and Finland
This article identifies key trends over the last 20 years in residential and community care for older people in England, Finland and Australia, investigating the extent of ‘de-institutionalisation’, ‘privatisation’ and ‘individualisation’. The concepts of collective and individual ‘voice’ and ‘choice’ are used to interrogate the roles of collective and individual actors, older people and carers, in influencing policy formulation. While these thre…
The marketisation of care
The use of markets and market mechanisms to deliver care services is growing in both liberal and social democratic welfare states. This article examines debates and policies concerning the marketisation of eldercare and childcare in Sweden, England and Australia. It shows how market discourses and practices intersect with, reinforce or challenge traditions and existing policies and examines whether care markets deliver user empowerment and greate…
From Assistance to Prevention
Young people who provide unpaid care for a relative with chronic illness or disability are a growing focus of public policy and research in Australia and internationally. Support services for these young carers have emerged, but not enough is known about their effectiveness. This article develops an analytical framework that categorizes young carer support services according to their goals and the types of intervention provided. The analytical fr…
Combining Paid Work and Family Care
As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from both families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people.At the same time both women and men are expected to increase and lengthen their participation in paid work, which makes combining caring and working a burning issue for social and employment policy and economic sustainability. International discussion about the reconciliation of work and …
Information Provision to Grandparent Kinship Carers
Grandparent kinship care is a growing policy concern in Australia. Availability of appropriate, timely, and up-to-date information on payments and allowances, support services, and children's needs, is an important factor in determining whether grandparent carers, and the children in their care, receive the support they need. While it is known that custodial grandparents in Australia have trouble gaining access to information and support, relativ…
Grandparents raising grandchildren
Grandparents who have primary responsibility for raising their grandchildren are increasingly on research and social policy agendas in Australia and elsewhere. Little is known, however, about the diversity in circumstances and experiences among grandparents in these caring relationships, and assumptions about the homogeneity of grandparents are often embedded in policy prescriptions and academic discourse. This paper explores the experiences and …
Capturing the centrality of age and life-course stage in the provision of unpaid care
The purpose of this article is to construct a new theoretical framework of care-giving that places age, and the life-course stage of carers, at the centre of conceptual understanding and analysis. Although care theory is heavily gendered, it pays far less attention to age differences among the diverse participants in care-giving. This article argues that the age and life-course stage of carers is central to differential pathways into care-giving,…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Nursing (6 works)