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Personalisation / Peter Beresford ; with responses from Sarah Carr, Jim Main, Alan Roulstone, Pat Stack, Helga Pile, Roddy Slorach and Colin Slasberg.

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Personalisation / Peter Beresford ; with responses from Sarah Carr, Jim Main, Alan Roulstone, Pat Stack, Helga Pile, Roddy Slorach and Colin Slasberg.
Author
Beresford, Peter
Publication
Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2014.

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xi, 88 pages; 20 cm.
Summary
Personalisation has become the policy buzz-word of the twenty-first century. Supporters claim it offers service users choice and services attuned to meet their specific needs , moving away from 'one size fits all' state services. Peter Beresford challenges the personalisation agenda and its consequences on service users. Although critical of 'one size fits all' services that deny service user voice, Beresford argues that personalisation turns service users into 'consumers' of services within a care market and hence reinforces the commodification of care which sees vast profits made by a small number of providers at the expense of good quality services for those who use them.
Series Statement
Critical and radical debates in social work
Uniform Title
Critical and radical debates in social work.
Subject
  • Social service > Great Britain > Methodology
  • Personalisierung
  • Sozialdienst
  • Großbritannien
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-88).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Series Editors' Introduction; The Personalisation Problem ~ Lead essay by Peter Beresford; Personalisation, participation and policy construction: a critique of influences and understandings ~ response by Sarah Carr; Up, close and personal in Glasgow: the harmful carer, service user and workforce consequences of personalisation ~ response by Jimmy Main; Personalisation-Plus Ca Change? ~ Response by Alan Roulstone; Comment on Peter Beresford's paper ~ Response by Pat Stack; All in the name of personalisation ~ Response by Helga Pile; Personalisation -- is there an alternative? ~ Response by Roddy Slorach; Some concluding thoughts ~ Peter Beresford; Bibliography.
ISBN
  • 9781447316145 (paperback)
  • 1447316142 (paperback)
OCLC
859583825
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library