Self-funders
Still By-Standers in the English Social Care Market
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12715455 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melanie Henwood (University of Birmingham, corresponding author), Jon Glasby (0000-0003-3960-7988, University of Birmingham), Steve Mckay (0000-0002-5080-8417, University of Lincoln), Claudia Needham (0000-0001-8519-4171, University of Birmingham) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 227-241 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Policy and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-7464 • E-ISSN: 1475-3073 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1474746420000603 |
| OpenAlex | W3113060806 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 2 |
The Care Act 2014 gave local authorities in England broad duties around wellbeing, and responsibility to ensure the availability of good quality, personalised social care and support services for people who need them. These responsibilities are for all people needing support, whether that is publicly or privately funded. In exercising their duties, councils have a responsibility for ‘market-shaping’: that is, understanding the supply and demand for care, and the types of services and support needed now and in the future, and steering the market accordingly. Changes to the implementation of the Care Act removed some of the levers that might have brought self-funders into the mainstream of local authority responsibilities. This article draws on sixty-four qualitative interviews undertaken as part of a larger study on market-shaping and personalisation of care, and reflects on the experience of self-funders and the approach to them adopted by local authorities and provider organisations. The findings indicate that self-funders are still largely bystanders to local authority market shaping strategies, despite being both impacted by those strategies and significantly influencing the markets in which they operate
Business · Local authority · Mainstream · Personalization · Political science · Public relations · Qualitative research · Quality (philosophy · Social care · Social responsibility · Sociology · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Law · Medicine · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Nursing · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Marketing
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Reasons for Not Adopting Covid-19 Permitted Changes to Legal Duties
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
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| Citations per year | 3.67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |