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Cash and Care
Caroline Pet
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Description for Cash and Care
Paperback. Recent trends and policy developments have called into question the divide between the provision of income support and social care services. This book addresses this theme with reference to key trends: individualisation, citizen responsibility, the decline of the married male breadwinner and new ways of supporting disabled and older people. Editor(s): Glendinning, Caroline; Kemp, Peter A. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Recent social trends and policy developments have called into question the divide between the provision of income support and social care services. This book examines this in light of key trends. The book presents new evidence on the links between cash - whether from earnings from paid work, social security benefits, and payments for disabled people and carers - and social disadvantage, care and disability. It presents theoretical perspectives on the need for and provision of care, which some commentators have described as a 'new social risk' and offers new insights into traditional forms of risk, such as poverty, disability, ... Read more
Recent social trends and policy developments have called into question the divide between the provision of income support and social care services. This book examines this in light of key trends. The book presents new evidence on the links between cash - whether from earnings from paid work, social security benefits, and payments for disabled people and carers - and social disadvantage, care and disability. It presents theoretical perspectives on the need for and provision of care, which some commentators have described as a 'new social risk' and offers new insights into traditional forms of risk, such as poverty, disability, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861348562
SKU
V9781861348562
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Ref
99-50
About Caroline Pet
Caroline Glendinning is Professor of Social Policy and Assistant Director of the Social Policy Research Unit at the University of York, where she manages the Department of Health-funded research programme on choice and independence over the lifecourse. Peter A. Kemp is the Barnett Professor of Social Policy at the University of Oxford. He was previously Professor of Social Policy ... Read more
Reviews for Cash and Care
"The editors have assembled a fascinating array of contributors and topics that reflect this contemporary issue. It is comprehensive and far-reaching, looking at developmentsin the UK and overseas." Community Care "This rich and stimulating collection provides a fitting tribute to the memory of Sally Baldwin. It brings together original empirical material, theoretical perspectives and policy overviews in a wide-ranging, yet ... Read more