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What future for care?
Author(s)	Peter Beresford
Corporate Author	Joseph Rowntree Foundation - JRF
Journal title	Viewpoint, 2290, September 2008
Publisher	Joseph Rowntree Foundation - JRF, York, September 2008
Pages	16 pp
Source	Joseph Rowntree Foundation, The Homestead, 40 Water End, York YO30 6WP. http://www.jrf.org.uk
Keywords	Services ; Informal care ; Social workers ; Social policy ; Research Reviews.
Annotation	Care is a contentious policy concept. Numbers of people needing care are rising. Radical change is planned for care policy to increase choice and control through "personalisation". A new conceptual framework is needed for policy and practice in the 21st century, if people's rights and needs are to be met. This Viewpoint alerts the reader to the low status of care and care workers, and the reliance on "informal carers". These developments are reinforced by the increasing commodification of care, and researchers have observed and commented on the "carer as resource" in care policy. The context of this Viewpoint is the major reforms of social care and social care funding being pursued by government, on which a Green Paper is expected. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-081104213 E
Classmark	I: P6: QR: TM2: 3A:6KC
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