Social Care in the UK's Four Nations: Between Two Paradigms

This book explores the impact of social care policy devolution in the UK over the past two decades, highlighting differences between the four systems and the potential for radically different shapes to emerge.

Format: Hardback
Length: 226 pages
Publication date: 27 April 2023
Publisher: Bristol University Press

Since the devolution of social care policy two decades ago, significant differences have emerged among the four systems in the United Kingdom. However, the impact of these variations remains a subject of exploration. This book offers a groundbreaking examination of the perspectives of social care policy makers across the four systems, shedding light on their interactions and borrowings. Through extensive interviews with national and local policy makers across the UK, the book raises crucial questions about the role of standardization and differentiation in social care. It concludes that when given equal capacity to reform their respective systems, the regimes in each nation may take radically different shapes. Chapters 4 and 7 of this book are available Open Access under a CC-BY-NC-ND license.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781447364641