| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- 1 Introduction -- Promises, promises -- Social care -- the price of success? -- Falling behind -- Who cares? -- The human costs -- Why I wrote this book -- How this book is structured -- 2 A brief history: how we got here -- In need of care and attention -- the 1940s -- In sickness and in health -- Going private -- 'You've never had it so good' -- How many false dawns? -- Towards a new century -- Follow the money |
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Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose -- 3 Understanding social care -- What is it? -- Who gets care and why? -- A tale of two systems -- For the few, not the many -- Can you help me please? -- The money maze -- The social care pound -- Who pays? -- Not free at the point of use -- A matter of opinion -- In conclusion -- 4 Learning from the past -- Non, je ne regrette rien? -- Labour and the National Care Service, 1997 to 2010 -- Coalition government, 2010 to 2015: Dilnot and the Care Act -- Conservative government, 2015 to 2021 -- A final fix? -- Cycles of failure -- Learning the lessons |
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Lesson 1: Ask the right questions -- Lesson 2: Get the timing right -- Lesson 3: Aim for cross-party cooperation rather than consensus -- Lesson 4: Improve public awareness of social care -- Lesson 5: Don't begin with the hard stuff -- Lesson 6: Avoid paralysis by analysis -- Lesson 7: Take a long-term view -- Lesson 8: Make a positive case for change -- Lesson 9: Encourage realistic expectations -- 5 Learning from abroad -- A case of English exceptionalism? -- Continental Europe -- Scandinavia -- Japan -- Australia -- Spending compared: apples and pears? -- And the answer is? |
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Social care's zombie policy -- 6 Who cares? -- Care in the time of coronavirus -- The job of care -- Brexit and immigration -- Women's work? -- 'I'm only a carer' -- The professional and the personal -- A quantum of care -- From policy neglect to a people plan -- 7 A 1948 moment? The politics and process of reform -- A new Beveridge? -- Doing policy-making differently -- 1: Clarity of purpose -- 2: Agreeing the basics -- design principles for better care -- 3: Co-produced policy-making -- 4: Cathedral thinking -- A new road to reform -- 8 A new future for social care -- Does the cap fit? |
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The economic and social case for care -- A universal service -- and its limits -- The ties that bind -- a new social contract -- A new design and delivery model -- A new funding settlement -- Conclusion -- Postscript -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
Drawing on the history of social care, international comparisons and lived experience, this vital book outlines a different vision of social care as an essential part of England's economic and social infrastructure that enables people to live good lives |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 26, 2022) |
| Subject |
Social service -- England
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MEDICAL / Caregiving.
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Social service
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England
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781447364474 |
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1447364473 |
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9781447364467 |
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1447364465 |
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