Cash and care : policy challenges in the welfare state / [electronic resource]
Glendinning, Caroline,1950-editor.
Kemp, Peter,1955-editor.
Recent social trends and policy developments have called into question the divide between the provision of income support and social care services. This book examines this in light of key trends. The book presents new evidence on the links between cash - whether from earnings from paid work, social security benefits, and payments for disabled people and carers - and social disadvantage, care and disability. It presents: theoretical perspectives on the need for and provision of care, which some commentators have described as a 'new social risk'; new insights into traditional forms of risk, such as poverty, disability, access to credit and money management; analysis of childcare and informal support for sick, disabled or elderly people in the context of increasing female labour market participation and the introduction of cash allowances to pay for care; a new look at disabled people and older people in their roles as active citizens, whose views and experiences should help shape both policy and practice. Cash and care is essential reading for students, lecturers and researchers in social policy, applied social science, social work, and health and social care.
Scholarly & Professional
Cover; CASH AND CARE - Policy challenges in the welfare state; Contents; List of figures and tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Part One - Introduction; ONE - Introduction; Part Two - New theoretical perspectives on care and policy; TWO - Care and gender: have the arguments for recognising carework now been won?; THREE - Research on care: what impact on policy and planning?; FOUR - 'Pseudo-democracy and spurious precision': knowledge dilemmas in the new welfare state; Part Three - Traditional forms of disadvantage: new perspectives
FIVE - The costs of caring for a disabled child SIX - Disability, poverty and living standards: reviewing Australian evidence and policies; SEVEN - Consumers without money: consumption patterns and citizenship among low-income families in Scandinavian welfare societies; EIGHT - Affordable credit for low-income households; NINE - Carers and employment in a work-focused welfare state; Part Four - Families, care work and the state; TEN - Paying family caregivers: evaluating different models; ELEVEN - Developments in Austrian care arrangements: women between free choice and informal care
TWELVE - When informal care becomes a paid job: the case of Personal Assistance Budgets in Flanders THIRTEEN - Better off in work? Work, security and welfare for lone mothers; FOURTEEN - Reciprocity, lone parents and state subsidy for informal childcare; FIFTEEN - Helping out at home: children's contributions to sustaining work and care in lone-mother families; Part Five - From welfare subjects to active citizens; SIXTEEN - Making connections: supporting new forms of engagement by marginalised groups
SEVENTEEN - Independent living: the role of the disability movement in the development of government policy EIGHTEEN - Securing the dignity and quality of life of older citizens; Part Six - Conclusions; NINETEEN - Conclusions; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-309) and index.
Scholarly & Professional
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Recent social trends and policy developments have called into question the divide between the provision of income support and social care services. This book examines this in light of key trends. The book presents new evidence on the links between cash - whether from earnings from paid work, social security benefits, and payments for disabled people and carers - and social disadvantage, care and disability. It presents: theoretical perspectives on the need for and provision of care, which some commentators have described as a 'new social risk'; new insights into traditional forms of risk, such as poverty, disability, access to credit and money management; analysis of childcare and informal support for sick, disabled or elderly people in the context of increasing female labour market participation and the introduction of cash allowances to pay for care; a new look at disabled people and older people in their roles as active citizens, whose views and experiences should help shape both policy and practice. Cash and care is essential reading for students, lecturers and researchers in social policy, applied social science, social work, and health and social care.
Welfare state.
Social policy.