Ending the Social Care Crisis

A New Road to Reform

Richard Humphries (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

316 Seiten

2022
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-6445-0 (ISBN)

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Drawing on the history of social care, international comparisons and lived experience, this vital book outlines a different vision of social care as an essential part of England's economic and social infrastructure that enables people to live good lives.

What lies behind England’s crisis in adult social care, why has real change been so hard and what can be done?

Ensuring effective, sustainable and affordable care and support for people of all ages is an urgent public policy challenge. This vital book outlines a different vision of social care as an essential part of the country’s economic and social infrastructure that enables people to live good lives.

Drawing on the history of social care, international comparisons and lived experience, it sets out a different road to reform that will secure political traction and public support for change.

Richard Humphries has worked in social care for forty-five years in various roles including as a social worker, Director of Social Services and for eleven years as Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund. He is a Senior Policy Advisor to the Health Foundation and Visiting Professor at the University of Worcester.

1. Introduction

2. A Brief History: How We Got Here

3. Understanding Social Care

4. Learning from the Past

5. Learning from Abroad

6. Who Cares?

7. A 1948 Moment? The Politics and Process of Reform

8. A New Future for Social Care

Erscheinungsdatum	25.10.2022
Zusatzinfo	4 Tables, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4473-6445-7 / 1447364457
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-6445-0 / 9781447364450
Zustand	Neuware