Normative puzzles for local government
Managing the introduction of single-handed care in England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2250211 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leigh Rooney (0000-0002-8046-9364, Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne UK, corresponding author), T Rapley (0000-0003-4836-4279, Northumbria University), Phillip J Whitehead (Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne UK), Peter Whitehead (0000-0003-1310-4020, Newcastle University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 718-733 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9566.13618 |
| PMID | 36708356 |
| OpenAlex | W4318340456 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 21 |
A crisis in social care is apparent across the developed world as ageing populations put unprecedented demand on understaffed social care workforces. A recent popular response to this 'care crisis' within the UK involves the 'innovation' of single-handed care (SHC). SHC involves a care package with two or more homecare workers being reduced to one worker using advanced equipment and new moving and handling techniques. In this article, we explore how SHC is rendered in 245 documents from 52 local authorities in England. Using Actor Network Theory as an interpretative lens, we suggest documents attempt to satisfy three 'duties of care': to the individual wellbeing of citizens, morally and fiscally to the collective and to innovation. Each appeal to different stakeholder groups necessary for SHC to work, but the combination of duties can pose problems in enabling coherent stories of SHC. Duties can be kept apart in different documents, but at times they must be brought together in certain textual spaces to enact SHC as a coherent enterprise. Here, the potential tensions that emerge are routinely orientated to as (merely) problems of process that can and should be managed in and through a more refined approach to change management
Appeal · Business · Government (linguistics · Normative · Normative model of decision-making · Political science · Process (computing · Public relations · Social care · Sociology · Stakeholder · Work (physics · Computer Science · Engineering · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Innovation, Technology, and Society · Law · Medicine · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Nursing · Public Administration
Aircraft Stories
Thematic analysis.
Assembling research integrity
Doing policy
Single‐handed care’ initiatives and reviews of double‐handed homecare packages
After Method
Anti-Oedipus
Citizen Participation in Budgeting Theory
Modes of Syncretism
The day program multiple
The Body Multiple
Professional Vision
Frying eggs or making a treatment plan? Frictions between different modes of caring in a community mental health team
Might constraint be compatible with care? Home care as a situational ethics
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |