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oapen-20.500.12657-624792024-03-28T08:18:55Z Chapter 4 The mechanisms of social care reform Needham, Catherine Hall, Patrick Ageing; Care regimes; Comparative care; Devolution; Social care thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPR Regional, state and other local government thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBP Health systems and services Chapter 4 and chapter 7 are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Two decades have passed since the devolution of social care policy, with key differences emerging between the UK’s four systems, but what impact have these differences had? This book presents for the first time research on the perspectives of social care policy makers on the four systems in which they operate and the ways in which they borrow from one another. Drawing on extensive interviews with national and local policy makers across the UK, the book raises vital questions about the role of ‘standardisation’ and ‘differentiation’ in social care, concluding that when given equal capacity to reform their respective systems, the regimes in each nation may take radically different shapes. 2023-04-18T12:32:51Z 2023-04-18T12:32:51Z 2023 chapter 9781447364641 9781447364665 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62479 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781447364672.004.pdf 9781447364665_EPUB-CH04.epub Policy Press Social Care in the UK’s Four Nations 10.47674/99781447364672.004 10.47674/99781447364672.004 f394f44e-e957-4b77-91b6-32fe9c22978a 1304d3fa-dc06-4ca8-ad73-5aff87e5e339 9781447364641 9781447364665 70 Bristol open access
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Chapter 4 and chapter 7 are available Open Access under
CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Two decades have passed since the devolution of social care policy, with key differences emerging between the UK’s four systems, but what impact have these differences had? This book presents for the first time research on the perspectives of social care policy makers on the four systems in which they operate and the ways in which they borrow from one another.
Drawing on extensive interviews with national and local policy makers across the UK, the book raises vital questions about the role of ‘standardisation’ and ‘differentiation’ in social care, concluding that when given equal capacity to reform their respective systems, the regimes in each nation may take radically different shapes.
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