Moran, Nicola orcid.org/0000-0002-6219-0394, Arksey, Hilary, Glendinning, Caroline et al. (3 more authors) (2011) Personalisation and Carers: Whose rights? Whose benefits? British Journal of Social Work. ISSN 1468-263X
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.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | personalisation; personal bugets; carers; disabled people; older people; choice; control; cash-for-care; service users; social care; social services |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Research Groups (York) > Social Policy Research Unit (York) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Department of Health Policy Research Programme UNSPECIFIED |
Depositing User: | R Pitman |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jun 2016 15:31 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jun 2016 15:34 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcr075 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:43743 |