Colin Slasberg
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6589337 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Colin Slasberg |
| PRENOMES | Colin |
| SOBRENOME | Slasberg |
| ASSINATURA | SLASBERG C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Independent consultant in social care, Harlow, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9483-6113 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Future of Social Care
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Foreword by David Brindle In the face of major global demographic change, social care policy and practice are in urgent need of radical reform and reassessment. Rising poverty, inequality and pressure on local communities internationally, are also increasing the urgent need for reform. Drawing on the cris…
Personal health budgets
When Norman Lamb, Minister for Care and Support, announced to Parliament the introduction of a right to ask for a personal health budget (Lamb, 2013), he said it would “... go further towards our goal of providing greater personalisation within our NHS”. He thus saw a personal health budget (PHB) as a means to an end, not an end in itself. By not declaring any alternative definition of the word ‘personalisation’, we can deduce that he was applyin…
The mixed and misleading messages within adult social care – implications for the social work role to assess need and plan support
Concern about the role social workers play in adult social care is long standing. Social workers, whose ethics commit them to supporting the empowerment of service users and to social justice, are required to work within a system that fails to secure either and is widely identified as in long-term crisis, despite a number of unsuccessful efforts to transform it. This article describes a detailed examination of the way one council operates. It rev…
Independent living for all
The 1948 welfare state settlement perpetuated social care as stuck in the Poor Law. However, its capacity to deliver short-term political expedients has allowed it to remain in place and defy decades of efforts to reform it, creating an intellectual and moral desert. The concept of independent living developed by the disabled people’s movement could fill the vacuum and become the driving vision for a sustainable system of social care based on rig…
Ethical and lawful practice in assessment of need and planning support
Many social workers in England believe that the system that assesses needs for care and support and allocates resources is fundamentally oppressive. The direct evidence bears out that this is, indeed, the case. The process leaves service users feeling disempowered, while the system’s design enables it to deny that there is ever a gap between needs and resources. This serves short-term political goals. Delivering the practices required by this sys…
Independent living
Since 1996, people in the United Kingdom have been able to take cash to manage their own support to live life on terms equal to others – the concept at the core of independent living. This level of provision is now under attack. Levels of payments are being cut. Some disabled people are being forced into institutional care. Austerity is commonly blamed, but the facts do not support this. More likely is a change in attitudes. The positive sentimen…
Personal health budgets
Strengths-based practice
There has never been such a consensus that social care is in crisis in England. However, it cannot be assumed this will result in fundamental rethinking of the future. Social care continues to search for a miracle cure that will painlessly transform it into a system both personalised and will cost less. The current ‘elixir’ is ‘strengths based practice’. This article suggests, however, that the current depersonalising and wasteful practices which…
The need to bring an end to the era of eligibility policies for a person-centred, financially sustainable future
Attention within the social care sector in England is moving away from consumerist notions of choice towards good professional practice as the route to personalisation. This demands a new focus on how to make practice that is person-centred the norm. The following sets out that this is unlikely to happen until the use of eligibility policies is ended. The lessons are relevant not only to England, but to other countries who may be looking to the U…
The eligibility question – the real source of depersonalisation
There have been a number of high-profile strategies over recent decades to raise social care above what is widely regarded as an unacceptable service in the United Kingdom. Quite apart from all too frequent high-profile scandals, it is seen as a service that is depersonalising and stigmatising. None of the strategies to bring about change, most of them introduced to great fanfares, have delivered the changes they promised. This article sets out a…
The false narrative about personal budgets in England
Successive governments have supported ‘personal budgets’ as the route to transforming social care. However, this article outlines how the evidence has been constructed in a way that creates a narrative about personal budgets which is misleading. It is a narrative that continues to dominate the national strategy. The consequence is that the care system remains set in a dysfunctional, two-tier state. For the bottom tier, comprising over 90%, we arg…
Self-directed support. Personalisation, choice and control
Given a subject characterised with highly charged rhetoric and the presence of powerful interests as ideas and governmental policy intersect, Self-directed Support provides a very welcome cool, sch
Building on the original strengths of direct payments to create a better future for social care
Confidence in the prevailing In Control model of personal budgets in the United Kingdom is beginning to waver.This raises the question of 'where to next?' for social care.Will we be returning to the monolithic system that typified services at the turn of the millenniuma system that is deeply oppressive for the great majority who lack the support and confidence to escape it by accessing a direct payment to manage their own support system?The Care …
Debates in Personalisation
This unique book brings together, for the first time, advocates and critics of the personalisation agenda in English social care services to debate key issues relating to personalisation. Perspectives from service users, practitioners, academics and policy commentators come together to give an account of the practicalities and controversies associated with the implementation of personalised approaches. The conclusion examines how to make sense of…
Personal health budgets
When Norman Lamb, Minister for Care and Support, announced to Parliament the introduction of a right to ask for a personal health budget (Lamb, 2013), he said it would “... go further towards our goal of providing greater personalisation within our NHS”. He thus saw a personal health budget (PHB) as a means to an end, not an end in itself. By not declaring any alternative definition of the word ‘personalisation’, we can deduce that he was applyin…
Government guidance for the Care Act
The UK Government claims to be creating a historic change to social care in England through the Care Act by putting people in control of their support. However, this is fundamentally contradicted by the draft guidance published to support the Act. This amounts to a formula for maintaining the prevailing resource-limited approach to assessing and meeting needs. This reality is obscured by a welter of choice and person-centred rhetoric. However, it…
Debates in personalisation
Part 1: Introduction and Overview Introduction ~ Catherine Needham and Jon Glasby Taking Stock of Personalisation ~ Catherine Needham and Jon Glasby Making it Real: from Putting People First to Think Local, Act Personal ~ Sarah Carr Part 2: The Challenges of Personalisation Resource Allocation Systems: complex and counterproductive? ~ Lucy Series Safeguarding, risk and personalisation ~ Jill Manthorpe Can personalisation work for older people? ~ …
Can personal budgets really deliver better outcome for all at no cost? Reviewing the evidence, costs and quality
Political recognition of the parlous state of English social care and the urgent need for radical reform led to calls for new policy approaches that address the two key problems it faced: inadequate funding and poor quality and inappropriate provision. The New Labour government was convinced that it had found a way of dealing with these two competing problems and it embarked on a policy, which has subsequently gained cross-party support. The cent…
Debates in personalisation
Part 1: Introduction and Overview Introduction ~ Catherine Needham and Jon Glasby Taking Stock of Personalisation ~ Catherine Needham and Jon Glasby Making it Real: from Putting People First to Think Local, Act Personal ~ Sarah Carr Part 2: The Challenges of Personalisation Resource Allocation Systems: complex and counterproductive? ~ Lucy Series Safeguarding, risk and personalisation ~ Jill Manthorpe Can personalisation work for older people? ~ …
Building on the original strengths of direct payments to create a better future for social care
Confidence in the prevailing In Control model of personal budgets in the United Kingdom is beginning to waver.This raises the question of 'where to next?' for social care.Will we be returning to the monolithic system that typified services at the turn of the millenniuma system that is deeply oppressive for the great majority who lack the support and confidence to escape it by accessing a direct payment to manage their own support system?The Care …
Can personal budgets really deliver better outcome for all at no cost? Reviewing the evidence, costs and quality
Political recognition of the parlous state of English social care and the urgent need for radical reform led to calls for new policy approaches that address the two key problems it faced: inadequate funding and poor quality and inappropriate provision. The New Labour government was convinced that it had found a way of dealing with these two competing problems and it embarked on a policy, which has subsequently gained cross-party support. The cent…
Government guidance for the Care Act
The UK Government claims to be creating a historic change to social care in England through the Care Act by putting people in control of their support. However, this is fundamentally contradicted by the draft guidance published to support the Act. This amounts to a formula for maintaining the prevailing resource-limited approach to assessing and meeting needs. This reality is obscured by a welter of choice and person-centred rhetoric. However, it…
Strengths-based practice
There has never been such a consensus that social care is in crisis in England. However, it cannot be assumed this will result in fundamental rethinking of the future. Social care continues to search for a miracle cure that will painlessly transform it into a system both personalised and will cost less. The current ‘elixir’ is ‘strengths based practice’. This article suggests, however, that the current depersonalising and wasteful practices which…
Independent living
Since 1996, people in the United Kingdom have been able to take cash to manage their own support to live life on terms equal to others – the concept at the core of independent living. This level of provision is now under attack. Levels of payments are being cut. Some disabled people are being forced into institutional care. Austerity is commonly blamed, but the facts do not support this. More likely is a change in attitudes. The positive sentimen…
The need to bring an end to the era of eligibility policies for a person-centred, financially sustainable future
Attention within the social care sector in England is moving away from consumerist notions of choice towards good professional practice as the route to personalisation. This demands a new focus on how to make practice that is person-centred the norm. The following sets out that this is unlikely to happen until the use of eligibility policies is ended. The lessons are relevant not only to England, but to other countries who may be looking to the U…
The false narrative about personal budgets in England
Successive governments have supported ‘personal budgets’ as the route to transforming social care. However, this article outlines how the evidence has been constructed in a way that creates a narrative about personal budgets which is misleading. It is a narrative that continues to dominate the national strategy. The consequence is that the care system remains set in a dysfunctional, two-tier state. For the bottom tier, comprising over 90%, we arg…
The eligibility question – the real source of depersonalisation
There have been a number of high-profile strategies over recent decades to raise social care above what is widely regarded as an unacceptable service in the United Kingdom. Quite apart from all too frequent high-profile scandals, it is seen as a service that is depersonalising and stigmatising. None of the strategies to bring about change, most of them introduced to great fanfares, have delivered the changes they promised. This article sets out a…
Self-directed support. Personalisation, choice and control
Given a subject characterised with highly charged rhetoric and the presence of powerful interests as ideas and governmental policy intersect, Self-directed Support provides a very welcome cool, sch
Ethical and lawful practice in assessment of need and planning support
Many social workers in England believe that the system that assesses needs for care and support and allocates resources is fundamentally oppressive. The direct evidence bears out that this is, indeed, the case. The process leaves service users feeling disempowered, while the system’s design enables it to deny that there is ever a gap between needs and resources. This serves short-term political goals. Delivering the practices required by this sys…
Can personal budgets really deliver better outcome for all at no cost? Reviewing the evidence, costs and quality
Political recognition of the parlous state of English social care and the urgent need for radical reform led to calls for new policy approaches that address the two key problems it faced: inadequate funding and poor quality and inappropriate provision. The New Labour government was convinced that it had found a way of dealing with these two competing problems and it embarked on a policy, which has subsequently gained cross-party support. The cent…
Debates in Personalisation
This unique book brings together, for the first time, advocates and critics of the personalisation agenda in English social care services to debate key issues relating to personalisation. Perspectives from service users, practitioners, academics and policy commentators come together to give an account of the practicalities and controversies associated with the implementation of personalised approaches. The conclusion examines how to make sense of…
Personal health budgets
When Norman Lamb, Minister for Care and Support, announced to Parliament the introduction of a right to ask for a personal health budget (Lamb, 2013), he said it would “... go further towards our goal of providing greater personalisation within our NHS”. He thus saw a personal health budget (PHB) as a means to an end, not an end in itself. By not declaring any alternative definition of the word ‘personalisation’, we can deduce that he was applyin…
Government guidance for the Care Act
The UK Government claims to be creating a historic change to social care in England through the Care Act by putting people in control of their support. However, this is fundamentally contradicted by the draft guidance published to support the Act. This amounts to a formula for maintaining the prevailing resource-limited approach to assessing and meeting needs. This reality is obscured by a welter of choice and person-centred rhetoric. However, it…
Debates in personalisation
Part 1: Introduction and Overview Introduction ~ Catherine Needham and Jon Glasby Taking Stock of Personalisation ~ Catherine Needham and Jon Glasby Making it Real: from Putting People First to Think Local, Act Personal ~ Sarah Carr Part 2: The Challenges of Personalisation Resource Allocation Systems: complex and counterproductive? ~ Lucy Series Safeguarding, risk and personalisation ~ Jill Manthorpe Can personalisation work for older people? ~ …
Self-directed support. Personalisation, choice and control
Given a subject characterised with highly charged rhetoric and the presence of powerful interests as ideas and governmental policy intersect, Self-directed Support provides a very welcome cool, sch
Building on the original strengths of direct payments to create a better future for social care
Confidence in the prevailing In Control model of personal budgets in the United Kingdom is beginning to waver.This raises the question of 'where to next?' for social care.Will we be returning to the monolithic system that typified services at the turn of the millenniuma system that is deeply oppressive for the great majority who lack the support and confidence to escape it by accessing a direct payment to manage their own support system?The Care …
The eligibility question – the real source of depersonalisation
There have been a number of high-profile strategies over recent decades to raise social care above what is widely regarded as an unacceptable service in the United Kingdom. Quite apart from all too frequent high-profile scandals, it is seen as a service that is depersonalising and stigmatising. None of the strategies to bring about change, most of them introduced to great fanfares, have delivered the changes they promised. This article sets out a…
The false narrative about personal budgets in England
Successive governments have supported ‘personal budgets’ as the route to transforming social care. However, this article outlines how the evidence has been constructed in a way that creates a narrative about personal budgets which is misleading. It is a narrative that continues to dominate the national strategy. The consequence is that the care system remains set in a dysfunctional, two-tier state. For the bottom tier, comprising over 90%, we arg…
Personal health budgets
Strengths-based practice
There has never been such a consensus that social care is in crisis in England. However, it cannot be assumed this will result in fundamental rethinking of the future. Social care continues to search for a miracle cure that will painlessly transform it into a system both personalised and will cost less. The current ‘elixir’ is ‘strengths based practice’. This article suggests, however, that the current depersonalising and wasteful practices which…
The need to bring an end to the era of eligibility policies for a person-centred, financially sustainable future
Attention within the social care sector in England is moving away from consumerist notions of choice towards good professional practice as the route to personalisation. This demands a new focus on how to make practice that is person-centred the norm. The following sets out that this is unlikely to happen until the use of eligibility policies is ended. The lessons are relevant not only to England, but to other countries who may be looking to the U…
Ethical and lawful practice in assessment of need and planning support
Many social workers in England believe that the system that assesses needs for care and support and allocates resources is fundamentally oppressive. The direct evidence bears out that this is, indeed, the case. The process leaves service users feeling disempowered, while the system’s design enables it to deny that there is ever a gap between needs and resources. This serves short-term political goals. Delivering the practices required by this sys…
Independent living
Since 1996, people in the United Kingdom have been able to take cash to manage their own support to live life on terms equal to others – the concept at the core of independent living. This level of provision is now under attack. Levels of payments are being cut. Some disabled people are being forced into institutional care. Austerity is commonly blamed, but the facts do not support this. More likely is a change in attitudes. The positive sentimen…
Independent living for all
The 1948 welfare state settlement perpetuated social care as stuck in the Poor Law. However, its capacity to deliver short-term political expedients has allowed it to remain in place and defy decades of efforts to reform it, creating an intellectual and moral desert. The concept of independent living developed by the disabled people’s movement could fill the vacuum and become the driving vision for a sustainable system of social care based on rig…
Personal health budgets
When Norman Lamb, Minister for Care and Support, announced to Parliament the introduction of a right to ask for a personal health budget (Lamb, 2013), he said it would “... go further towards our goal of providing greater personalisation within our NHS”. He thus saw a personal health budget (PHB) as a means to an end, not an end in itself. By not declaring any alternative definition of the word ‘personalisation’, we can deduce that he was applyin…
The mixed and misleading messages within adult social care – implications for the social work role to assess need and plan support
Concern about the role social workers play in adult social care is long standing. Social workers, whose ethics commit them to supporting the empowerment of service users and to social justice, are required to work within a system that fails to secure either and is widely identified as in long-term crisis, despite a number of unsuccessful efforts to transform it. This article describes a detailed examination of the way one council operates. It rev…
The Future of Social Care
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Foreword by David Brindle In the face of major global demographic change, social care policy and practice are in urgent need of radical reform and reassessment. Rising poverty, inequality and pressure on local communities internationally, are also increasing the urgent need for reform. Drawing on the cris…
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