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Personalisation and carers: Whose rights? Whose benefits?

Moran, Nicola, Arksey, Hilary, Glendinning, Caroline, Jones, Karen C., Netten, Ann, Rabiee, Parvaneh (2012) Personalisation and carers: Whose rights? Whose benefits? British Journal of Social Work, 42 (3). pp. 461-479. ISSN 0045-3102. (doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcr075) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:32437)

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Abstract

Increasing numbers of developed welfare states now operate cash-for-care schemes in which service users are offered cash payments in place of traditional social services. Such schemes raise concerns about the extent to which they include and support carers. This paper aims to explore some of these issues through an analysis of a cash-for-care initiative piloted in England in 2005–07: the Individual Budgets (IBs) pilot projects. The paper reports the findings of an evaluation of the impact and outcomes of IBs for carers through analyses of qualitative interviews with IB lead officers, carers' lead officers and carers of IB holders; and analyses of structured outcome interviews with carers of IB holders and carers of people in receipt of conventional social care services. The evaluation found that, despite their primary aim of increasing choice and control for the service user, IBs had a positive impact on carers of IB holders. The findings are important in that they have implications for the widespread roll-out of Personal Budgets in England and may also provide wider valuable lessons nationally and internationally about the tensions between policies to support carers and policies aimed at promoting choice and control by disabled and older people.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1093/bjsw/bcr075
Uncontrolled keywords: Carers; personalisation; choice; rights; Individual Budgets; cash-for-care
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research > Personal Social Services Research Unit
Depositing User: Jane Dennett
Date Deposited: 13 Dec 2012 16:22 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:10 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/32437 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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