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A fair budget: a discussion paper exploring the role of the RAS in the development of self-directed support
- Authors:
- DUFFY Simon, ETHERINGTON Keith
- Publisher:
- Centre for Welfare Reform
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 23p.
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
This discussion paper describes a way forward for developing Resource Allocation Systems (RAS) in Scotland as an essential component of a sustainable system of self-directed support. It argues that, rather than fixate on one model or system, it is better to begin a period of genuine innovation and exploration in partnership with disabled people and families. The report suggests that the English experience of providing personal budgets provides some important Lessons for Scotland, but that there is also a danger of creating an unduly bureaucratic system that does not trust disabled people or professionals. The report offers seven principles to describe how an effective RAS should work, and an empirical process to measure the success of emerging models.
Measuring personal social services outcomes: working age disabled people
- Author:
- HARRIS Jennifer
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This paper examined how far the methodology proposed to measure personal social services (PSS) productivity for older people is appropriate for capturing PSS activities and their outcomes in relation to younger (working age) disabled people with predominantly physical and/or sensory impairments. The paper has the following aims: to identify any additional outcome domains that reflect the concerns and priorities of younger disabled people that are not reflected in the outcome domains derived from the PSSRU OPUS study; and to compare the new amalgamated list of outcome domains with a ‘profile of needs/ outcomes’ and ‘profile of interventions’ derived from an examination of the activities undertaken with younger disabled people in one social services department during 2004. Five outcome domains were identified that were common to both the outcomes identified from research with younger disabled people and those proposed for older people. However, several domains were deemed inappropriate, including: access to the locality and wider environment; support for communication; access to paid employment as desired and to training and further/higher education to facilitate employment and the wider acquisition of new skills; and access to support for personal relationships, including parenting relationships. Other inappropriate domains are discussed.
Combining paid work and family care: policies and experiences in international perspective
- Authors:
- KROGER Teppo, YEANDLE Sue
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 256
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from both families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people.At the same time, both women and men are expected to increase and lengthen their participation in paid work, which makes combining caring and working a burning issue for social and employment policy and economic sustainability. International discussion about the reconciliation of work and care has previously focused mostly on childcare. Combining paid work and family care widens the debate, bringing into discussion the experiences of those providing support to their partners, older relatives and disabled or seriously ill children. The book analyses the situations of these working carers in Nordic, liberal and East Asian welfare systems. Highlighting what can be learned from individual experiences, the book analyses the changing welfare and labour market policies which shape the lives of working carers in Finland, Sweden, Australia, England, Japan and Taiwan. The book is arranged in three parts: working carers of older people; working parent-carers of disabled children; and working partner-carers. (Edited publisher abstract)
Social policy in the European Union
- Author:
- HANTRAIS Linda
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 304p.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
Social policy is constantly evolving in the European Union and is closely intertwined with other EU policy areas. This book offers an account of 50 years of social policy formation and implementation across the EU. Since publication of the 2nd edition the EU has enlarged and there has been increased debate about how to adapt its institutional structures to reflect this extended membership. The third edition takes account of the debates about adapting the Union's institutional structures to accommodate different welfare arrangements and the need for more open forms of European governance. Chapters include: developing European social policy; towards a European social model; education, training and employability; improving living and working conditions; family policy on the European agenda; the gender dimension of social policy; policy for older and disabled people; from social exclusion to social inclusion; social policy and mobility; and assessing 50 Years of European social policy.
The Peter Townsend reader
- Author:
- TOWNSEND Peter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 678p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This book brings together a collection of the work of Peter Townsend, a distinguished social science scholar and campaigner who died in 2009. The writings demonstrate the breadth and development of his work over a career spanning six decades. They are drawn together under the following headings; sociology and social policy; from welfare state to international welfare; poverty; inequality and social exclusion; health inequalities and health policy; older people; disability; and social justice and human rights.
Self-directed support: watching for the pitfalls
- Author:
- JONES Ray
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 16(1), February 2008, pp.44-47.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
In the recent government Comprehensive Spending Review there is a promise of a Green Paper on social care services for disabled and older people. The platform on which any new proposals will be built is likely to be heavily influenced by the Government's personalisation agenda for public services. In light of this the author reflects on the strengths and potential pitfalls of self-directed support for the personalisation agenda in adult social care.
Challenge of an ageing society
- Author:
- BEHAN David
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Care Services Management, 3(4), July 2009, pp.326-333.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper is based on a keynote presentation given at the Ageing Population '09 Conference held in London at the end of January 2009. Focusing on public spending and the challenge of an ageing society, the author talked about the multimillion-pound strategy to support, help and improve the lives of Britain's army of carers, the shortfall of funding for care of the elderly and disabled, increased life expectancy, the Green Paper setting out proposals for reform and the launch of the National Dementia Strategy.