This paper describes the early stages of a socially innovative project to develop and implement a personalised approach to offender rehabilitation in the context of Transforming Rehabilitation. It draws on the concept of ‘desistance’. This in turn leads to consideration of community capacity-building and market development that draws on experience from the social care sector. A number of early challenges and plans to overcome them are discussed. Challenges include the inherent uncertainty of the innovation process; the importance of collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders, including service users and local community organisations; innovating during a period of organisational change and wider public sector cuts; and the public presentation of personalised working with offenders. Plans to address these challenges include moving gradually from small-scale prototyping to larger pilots and close collaboration between service providers and evaluators.
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This paper describes the early stages of a socially innovative project to develop and implement a personalised approach to offender rehabilitation in the context of Transforming Rehabilitation. It draws on the concept of ‘desistance’. This in turn leads to consideration of community capacity-building and market development that draws on experience from the social care sector. A number of early challenges and plans to overcome them are discussed. Challenges include the inherent uncertainty of the innovation process; the importance of collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders, including service users and local community organisations; innovating during a period of organisational change and wider public sector cuts; and the public presentation of personalised working with offenders. Plans to address these challenges include moving gradually from small-scale prototyping to larger pilots and close collaboration between service providers and evaluators.
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British Journal of Social Work, 46(5), 2016, pp.1301-1317.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
... the challenge that ABI presents to statutory social work, this paper will start by outlining the common characteristics of ABI and consider the (limited) relevant policy guidance. The particular difficulties of reconciling the needs of people with ABI with the prevailing orthodoxies of personalisation will then be explored, with a particular focus on the mismatch between systems which rest on presumptions
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Increasing numbers of adults in the UK are living with acquired brain injury (ABI), with those affected requiring immediate medical care and longer-term rehabilitative and social care. Despite their social needs, limited attention has been paid to people with ABI within the social work literature and their needs are also often overlooked in policy and guidance. As a means of highlighting the challenge that ABI presents to statutory social work, this paper will start by outlining the common characteristics of ABI and consider the (limited) relevant policy guidance. The particular difficulties of reconciling the needs of people with ABI with the prevailing orthodoxies of personalisation will then be explored, with a particular focus on the mismatch between systems which rest on presumptions autonomy and the circumstances of individuals with ABI - typified by executive dysfunction and lack of insight into their own condition. Composite case studies, drawn from the first author's experiences as a case manager for individuals with ABI, will be used to illustrate the arguments being made. The paper will conclude by considering the knowledge and skills which social workers need in order to better support people with ABI.
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Subject terms:
head injuries, social work, personalisation, needs;
The mistreatment of older people is increasingly recognised internationally as a significant abuse of elders’ human rights. Scandals and inquiries into the failure to protect older people from abuse in health and social care systems rarely address, and still less challenge, the social, economic and cultural context to the abuse of older people. This critical and challenging book makes a strong case for the development of ethically-driven, research-informed policy and practice to safeguard older people from abuse. Drawing on findings of original UK research and framed in an international context, it illustrates ways in which ageism, under-resourced services to older people, target-driven health and social care policy and services, and organisational cultures of blame and scapegoating, are a powerful yet invisible backcloth to elder abuse.
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The mistreatment of older people is increasingly recognised internationally as a significant abuse of elders’ human rights. Scandals and inquiries into the failure to protect older people from abuse in health and social care systems rarely address, and still less challenge, the social, economic and cultural context to the abuse of older people. This critical and challenging book makes a strong case for the development of ethically-driven, research-informed policy and practice to safeguard older people from abuse. Drawing on findings of original UK research and framed in an international context, it illustrates ways in which ageism, under-resourced services to older people, target-driven health and social care policy and services, and organisational cultures of blame and scapegoating, are a powerful yet invisible backcloth to elder abuse.
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An interactive infographic exploring the impact of dementia and its scale. It shows that dementia costs the UK £26.3 billion a year, unpaid carers are overworked and under supported and that too many people with dementia aren't living as well as they could.
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An interactive infographic exploring the impact of dementia and its scale. It shows that dementia costs the UK £26.3 billion a year, unpaid carers are overworked and under supported and that too many people with dementia aren't living as well as they could.
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Personalisation has become the policy buzz-word of the twenty-first century. Supporters claim it offers service users choice and services attuned to meet their specific needs, moving away from ‘one size fits all’ state services. Peter Beresford, one of Britain's foremost social work academics, challenges the personalisation agenda and its consequences on service users. Although critical of ‘one size fits all’ services that deny service user voice, Beresford argues that personalisation turns service users into ‘consumers’ of services within a care market, and hence reinforces the commodification of care which sees vast profits made by a small number of providers at the expense of good quality services for those who use them. Eminent contributors on aspects of personal care, person-centred support and personalisation offer their responses.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Personalisation has become the policy buzz-word of the twenty-first century. Supporters claim it offers service users choice and services attuned to meet their specific needs, moving away from ‘one size fits all’ state services. Peter Beresford, one of Britain's foremost social work academics, challenges the personalisation agenda and its consequences on service users. Although critical of ‘one size fits all’ services that deny service user voice, Beresford argues that personalisation turns service users into ‘consumers’ of services within a care market, and hence reinforces the commodification of care which sees vast profits made by a small number of providers at the expense of good quality services for those who use them. Eminent contributors on aspects of personal care, person-centred support and personalisation offer their responses.
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Subject terms:
personalisation, personal budgets, person-centred care, social policy;
This guide complements research for London-based homelessness charity Broadway, and has been developed for front-line homelessness services that are exploring whether personalised services would help their clients find and keep a home. It refers to examples of practice currently in use by personalised services across England specifically for long-term rough sleepers. It outlines the main steps to be taken when planning such a response.
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This guide complements research for London-based homelessness charity Broadway, and has been developed for front-line homelessness services that are exploring whether personalised services would help their clients find and keep a home. It refers to examples of practice currently in use by personalised services across England specifically for long-term rough sleepers. It outlines the main steps to be taken when planning such a response.
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Subject terms:
rough sleepers, personalisation, personal budgets, unmet need;
The Year of Care supports its partners - the NHS, the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and Diabetes UK - to introduce and sustain personalised care planning as routine care. This website aims to provide support for personalised care planning for people with long-term conditions. It contains background information; rationale for a systematic approach to care planning; and critical success factors for building a 'house of care'. A resources section provides direct access to the main Year of Care documents, supporting references and other publications.
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The Year of Care supports its partners - the NHS, the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and Diabetes UK - to introduce and sustain personalised care planning as routine care. This website aims to provide support for personalised care planning for people with long-term conditions. It contains background information; rationale for a systematic approach to care planning; and critical success factors for building a 'house of care'. A resources section provides direct access to the main Year of Care documents, supporting references and other publications.
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Subject terms:
long term conditions, personalisation, care planning, information resources;
Reports on the findings of six workshops in total held across England between November 2012 and February 2013 to help social care providers, individual employers and support organisations to embed personalisation and develop a workforce that is capable and skilled to deliver personalised care and support. The workshops aimed to: raise awareness and use of the PA Framework and Making it Real;
(Edited publisher abstract)
Reports on the findings of six workshops in total held across England between November 2012 and February 2013 to help social care providers, individual employers and support organisations to embed personalisation and develop a workforce that is capable and skilled to deliver personalised care and support. The workshops aimed to: raise awareness and use of the PA Framework and Making it Real; identify challenges and gaps in approaches to working in a personalised way; raise awareness of the materials and resources available to individuals and providers; and offer networking opportunities with others in your local area.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
personalisation, staff development, evaluation, case studies;
This paper examines the ‘ideological grip’ of personalization. It does so empirically, tracking the trajectory of personalization through austerity budgeting in one English local authority. In this case, personalization continued to signify hope and liberation even though the most draconian cuts in the Council’s history effectively rendered personalization a practical impossibility. This requires critical theorization. Two bodies of theory are interrogated. First Boltanski’s sociology of critique, and, in particular, his notion of managerial domination illuminate the way in which change imperatives and crises come to cement ideological formations. Here it is argued that the articulation of personalization with transformation lends itself to managerial domination. It is further argued, though, that while institutional actors may be able to manipulate the symbolic to evade, what Boltanski terms, deconstructionist critique, this cannot entirely explain the hold of this particular discourse. Here, the Lacanian concept of enjoyment is deployed to interrogate its extra-symbolic function and fantasmatic form. Finally, the paper explores the political implications of such affective attachment and, in particular, the guarantee that personalization offers in a period of welfare state decline.
(Publisher abstract)
This paper examines the ‘ideological grip’ of personalization. It does so empirically, tracking the trajectory of personalization through austerity budgeting in one English local authority. In this case, personalization continued to signify hope and liberation even though the most draconian cuts in the Council’s history effectively rendered personalization a practical impossibility. This requires critical theorization. Two bodies of theory are interrogated. First Boltanski’s sociology of critique, and, in particular, his notion of managerial domination illuminate the way in which change imperatives and crises come to cement ideological formations. Here it is argued that the articulation of personalization with transformation lends itself to managerial domination. It is further argued, though, that while institutional actors may be able to manipulate the symbolic to evade, what Boltanski terms, deconstructionist critique, this cannot entirely explain the hold of this particular discourse. Here, the Lacanian concept of enjoyment is deployed to interrogate its extra-symbolic function and fantasmatic form. Finally, the paper explores the political implications of such affective attachment and, in particular, the guarantee that personalization offers in a period of welfare state decline.
(Publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
personalisation, adult social care, local authorities, welfare state;
British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 41(2), 2013, pp.106-113.
Publisher:
Wiley
... disabilities are offered the opportunity to be much more ‘hands-on’ with managing their own financial affairs. This paper highlights some key and emerging issues on the topic of money and personalisation and draws on interviews with a range of staff in learning disability services and highlights their views, hopes and concerns about the best ways to support people with money matters. The response of mainstream financial institutions to the needs of people with learning disabilities and the political and economic context in which the personalisation agenda is developing are also discussed.
(Edited publisher abstract)
In the UK, policy on adult social care places an emphasis on maximising choice and control for service users, including people with learning disabilities. The shift from the provision of organised services for groups of people to offering individual and personal budgets and pots of money for people to buy their own services has major implications for the way in which people with learning disabilities are offered the opportunity to be much more ‘hands-on’ with managing their own financial affairs. This paper highlights some key and emerging issues on the topic of money and personalisation and draws on interviews with a range of staff in learning disability services and highlights their views, hopes and concerns about the best ways to support people with money matters. The response of mainstream financial institutions to the needs of people with learning disabilities and the political and economic context in which the personalisation agenda is developing are also discussed.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
personalisation, learning disabilities, personal finance, social care staff;