Impersonalisation: the corruption of social care. Competing dimensions, personal perspectives and experiences of care.
In this paper I argue that 'personalisation' is a rebranding policy that has had three effects: to disguise deep structural faults in the organisation, funding and practice of social care; to deceive the population into assuming (until they come to need it) that personalised social care exists, and...
| Published in: | Journal of Social Work Practice Vol. 36; no. 4; pp. 481 - 495 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2022
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