Series Editors' Introduction. Glossary of Abbreviations. 1. Introduction: The Deevlopment of Direct Payments in Scotland; 2. Changing Cultures of Care in Scotland? The Experience of Two Local Authorities; 3. Supporting Roles; 4. Direct Payments and Marketisation of Care in Scotland; 5. The Views and Experiences of Direct Payments Users; 6. The Future of Direct Payments in Scotland. Appendix 1: Background to the ESRC study. Appendix 2: Conduct of the local authority 1 case study. Appendix 3: Conduct of the local authority 2 case study. References. Index.
Charlotte Pearson is Lecturer in Public Policy at the Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow. Her research has focused on the implementation of direct payments across the UK.
'We live in a time of strange paradoxes. Nowhere are these more
evident than in the area of direct payments and the personalisation
of care. A policy promoted by the most militant disability movement
in history was taken up and implemented by a right-wing onservative
government in the 1990s and now, under a New Labour government
committed to neo-liberal policies, is increasingly promoted as
the
model for all adult care services. The policy is hailed by ctivists
as the most empowering development ever seen in the sphere of
disability and opposed by public sector trade unionists as a Trojan
horse for privatisation. A degree of confusion and disorientation
is therefore understandable. This edited collection by Charlotte
Pearson provides a useful guide through this ideological fog of
competing policy discourses.' Research, Policy and Planning
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