Selling individual budgets, choice and control
Local and global influences on UK social care policy for people with learning difficulties
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6327344 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathy Boxall (0000-0002-0619-9159, University of Sheffield), Steve Dowson (0000-0003-1426-3197, Independent consultant), Peter Beresford (0000-0001-6052-033X, Centre for Citizen Participation, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 499-515 |
| Publication date | 2009-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-5736 • E-ISSN: 1470-8442 |
| Publisher | Bristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1332/030557309x445609 |
| OpenAlex | W1972265057 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
A range of national and international actors and networks have claimed to support the interests of people with learning difficulties over the last 30 years. This article examines their influence on UK policy for people with learning difficulties, with a particular focus on the recent policy shift towards individualised support and personalisation. Policy changes and developments within the UK are considered in the context of similar developments internationally and the article questions the extent to which personalisation can be sustained in the face of the scale and economic rationality of global markets. Finally, an alternative, more accountable, model of individualised support is proposed
Business · Context (archaeology · Control (management · Economics · Face (sociological concept · Management · Personalization · Policy learning · Political science · Public relations · Rationality · Scale (ratio · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Marketing
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There’s a lot of places I’d like to go and things I’d like to do’
Cash payments in context
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If I were given the chance’
Personal budgets in adult social care
Going It Alone or Playing to the Crowd? A Critique of Individual Budgets and the Personalisation of Health Care in the English National Health Service
Wizards and witches
The grip of personalization in adult social care
Ethical dilemmas
Changing the culture of social care in Scotland
Social Work and Personalisation
Employing Community Participative Research Methods to Advance Service User Collaboration in Social Work Research
Themed section
Neoliberalism's friends, foes and fellow travellers
Non-profits and the 'hollowed out' state
Do Personal Budgets Increase the Risk of Abuse? Evidence from English National Data
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2024 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |