TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hall,Patrick
AU  - Hall,Patrick
AU  - Needham,Catherine
TI  - Social Care in the UK's Four Nations: Between Two Paradigms
SN  - 9781447364641
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Bristol
PB  - Policy Press
KW  - Health systems and services
KW  - thema
KW  - Medicine and Nursing
KW  - Medicine: general issues
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Regional, state and other local government
KW  - Social services and welfare, criminology
KW  - Social welfare and social services
KW  - Society and Social Sciences
KW  - Ageing
KW  - Care regimes
KW  - Comparative care
KW  - Devolution
KW  - Social care
N1  - Free-to-read
N2  - Chapter 4 and chapter 7 are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Two decades have passed since the devolution of social care policy, with key differences emerging between the UK's four systems, but what impact have these differences had? This book presents for the first time research on the perspectives of social care policy makers on the four systems in which they operate and the ways in which they borrow from one another. Drawing on extensive interviews with national and local policy makers across the UK, the book raises vital questions about the role of 'standardisation' and 'differentiation' in social care, concluding that when given equal capacity to reform their respective systems, the regimes in each nation may take radically different shapes
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62478
ER  -