What is it about?
Caring in Crisis takes a critical approach in describing and analysing the state of social care today – both by looking at its development since the beginning of the welfare state and by examining the consequences of privatisation and marketization on health and care services during the last forty years. In doing so, it builds a strong case for bringing social care into the public sector and argues for radical policy change, especially in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Why is it important?
It offers solutions to the well-known and growing risks that threaten social care, including market collapse, and argue that improvement in its quality, through innovation and the transformation of workforce terms and condtions, can only be achieved by bringing it into the public sector.
Perspectives
Successive govbernments have promised to solve the problem of social care but never succeed in doing so. People requiring social care, like all citizens, should have access to appropriate services when they need them - a yet they are failed, year after year. Politicians should listen to what people want and ensure their needs are met, in a timely, caring and responsive manner. I have spent over thirty years trying to get people - politicians especially - to listen to the argument for change and improvement. The time is here!
Gillian Dalley
Brunel University
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This page is a summary of: Caring in Crisis, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-97998-0.
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