Disabled people negotiate gender, sexual identity and self-directed social care support in England

How Does Choice and Control Operate

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6421030
AutoresDavid Abbott (0000-0002-3447-5368, University of Bristol, autor correspondente), E Coleman-Fountain (0000-0003-1622-7026, University of York), H Humphrey (0000-0001-5791-4522, University of Glasgow)
Ano2024
Volume13
Fascículo1
Páginas112-128
Data de publicação2024-09-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCritical and Radical Social Work (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2049-8675 • E-ISSN: 2049-8608
EditoraBristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/20498608y2024d000000043
OpenAlexW4402120584
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas19

Putting disabled people in charge of their own support was a central component of the UK personalisation agenda. Austerity, staff recruitment difficulties and local authority retrenchment have meant that the experience for disabled people has not always lived up to the rhetorical promise. In this context, disabled people with marginalised sexual and/or gender identities face difficult choices in everyday interactions of support that trouble the idea that control routinely sits with them. In this article, we draw on two research studies with disabled people who use self-directed support in which they discuss navigating gender and sexual identity. In both studies, there are opportunities for disabled people to draw on support that is empowering, but we also hear about ‘bad bargains’ that they are sometimes forced to make. We argue that the hard-won goals of choice and control are being degraded and confronting LGBTQI+ and non-binary disabled people with sometimes impossible dilemmas

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