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Rummery K, Lawrence J & Russell S (2022) Partnership and Personalisation in Personal Care: Conflicts and Compromises. Social Policy and Society. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1474746422000525
Abstract
Background: Personalisation in social care services has become a feature of the delivery of long-term care for disabled people in many developed welfare states.
Aim: Scotland has used the devolution of health and social care powers to develop a personalisation scheme (known as ‘Self-directed Support’). The authors apply a theoretical and empirical framework to understand the experience of contemporary disabled users of personalised services.
Methods: The authors use a Scottish data set of six focus groups and a survey of 126 disabled people and family carers.
Results: The data showed that flexible funding and the ability to provide services that cross agency boundaries were instrumental in moving towards equitable outcomes.
Conclusions: Although there are clear policy and practice barriers to inter-agency working in personalised care services, the evidence suggests that it is worth investing in overcoming these barriers for disabled people and family carers.
Keywords
Inter-agency working; self-directed support; partnership; personalisation; personal care
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Output Status: Forthcoming/Available Online
Journal
Social Policy and Society
Status | Early Online |
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Funders | DRILL Disability Research on Independent Living & Learning (Scotland) |
Publication date online | 26/08/2022 |
Date accepted by journal | 10/08/2022 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
ISSN | 1474-7464 |
eISSN | 1475-3073 |
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