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Give them the money: is cash a route to empowerment
- Author:
- UNGERSON Clare
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 31(1), March 1997, pp.45-53.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Suggests it is important to unpack the notion of "empowerment" in community care so that the position of those who provide "hands-on" care is scrutinised alongside the empowerment of "users" of care. Considers the particular case of the forthcoming Direct Payments legislation. It is argues that both employers and employees in these care relationships are likely to be on low incomes, that the work is likely to be insecure and possibly unregulated, that there might be a problem of labour supply, and that in the long run, this form of employment might generate hardship for the workers so employed. Also considers other forms of reconciling the interests of both users and "carers".