Debates in personalisation / edited by Catherine Needham and Jon Glasby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Needham, Catherine, 1974- editor.

Glasby, Jon, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social service--England.

Social service.

Social service--Government policy--England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 219 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first book to bring together both advocates and critics of the personalisation agenda in English social care services to debate key issues.

Contents:

DEBATES IN PERSONALISATION; Contents; List of tables and figures; Table; Figures; Notes on contributors; Part One. Introduction and overview; 1. Introduction: debating personalisation ; 2. Taking stock of personalisation ; The policy context; The history ; The role of evidence ; What has personalisation achieved? ; Where should personalisation go next? ; Conclusion ; 3. Making it real: from Putting People First to Think Local, Act Personal; Policy evolution; Putting People First; Joined-up government and individual budgets; Think Local, Act Personal; Conclusion

Part Two. The challenges of personalisation 4. Resource allocation systems: complex and counterproductive?; Background: the aims of resource allocation systems; The legal status of RASs; How RASs work in practice; Conclusion; 5. Safeguarding, risk and personalisation; Early days; Converging ; Border crossing; Managing risks; Capacity concerns; Making Safeguarding Personal; Conclusion; 6. Can personalisation work for older people?; Introduction; Demographic trends and the cost of care; The preventive capacity of personalisation; Ageing, dependency and the need for care ; Conclusion

7. Personalisation: where do carers fit?Introduction; Background; The study; Carer involvement in service user assessment; Assessing carers' own needs ; Carers and resource allocation ; Support planning; Issues and implications; 8. Self-funders: the road from perdition?; Understanding self-funders; Policy and reform; The Care Act and the Care Account; Conclusion; Part Three. Frontline perspectives ; 9. Managing direct payments; The journey; The advantages of a personal budget; The issues and how they have been resolved; What needs to be done to make personal budgets work well?

10. Beyond 'being an employer': developing micro-markets 11. What about the workforce? ; Role and skill mix; From care assistants to personal assistants?; Conclusion; 12. A view from social work practice; So where did it go wrong? ; To the future; Part Four. Personalisation in the NHS: personal health budgets ; 13. Managing a personal health budget: Malcolm's story(book) ; 14. Evaluation of the personal health budget pilot programme1; The impact of personal health budgets on quality of life; The impact of personal health budgets on costs and cost-effectiveness

Building bottom-up demand for PHBs

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Mar 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4473-1344-5

1-4473-1343-7

OCLC:

894509339