Is small really beautiful for delivering social care and support?
Jenny Fisher discusses a study on social care provision by micro-enterprises and discovers that small may well be beautiful for delivering care and support. The post Is small really beautiful for...
View ArticleChoice and control for carers: How is personalisation working?
Sarah Carr looks at a literature review assessing how choice is working for family carers in the context of social care personalisation. The post Choice and control for carers: How is personalisation...
View ArticlePower and powerlessness: Mental health practitioner and service user...
Martin Stevens examines a study on mental health service user and practitioner experiences of personal budgets and finds that power and attitudes remain important factors. The post Power and...
View ArticleEmpowering, personalised and recovery-focused care planning and...
Sarah Carr summarises the COCAPP mixed-methods study, which concludes that positive therapeutic relationships appear to be the most important factor in helping care planning and care coordination to be...
View ArticleMaking Safeguarding Personal: are we there yet?
Blog and Campfire about the ADASS 2016 Temperature Check of progress in English local authorities towards Making Safeguarding Personal. The post Making Safeguarding Personal: are we there yet? appeared...
View ArticleIndirect Payments: when the MCA interacts with the personalisation agenda
Daisy Bogg summarises a qualitative study of professional and client experiences of indirect payments under the Mental Capacity Act. The post Indirect Payments: when the MCA interacts with the...
View ArticleAn equal exchange? Practitioners’ accounts of social care assessment under...
Tanya Moore considers a qualitative coproduced study of English practitioners' accounts of social care assessment practices under the Care Act 2014. The post An equal exchange? Practitioners’ accounts...
View ArticleFrom charity to social enterprise: a case study highlights challenges in...
Jenny Fisher considers the perspectives of staff, managers and service users of a Scottish social care charitable organisation for children with complex needs, which faces funding and organisational...
View ArticlePerson-centred care: challenges and changes to the training of psychiatrists
"A significant number of people receiving psychiatric care are not treated with the utmost dignity within our services that a true ‘person-centred’ approach would ensure." Linda Gask summarises a new...
View ArticleDirect funding and older people: why are we still talking about choice?
Francesca Pozzoli considers a qualitative metasynthesis of directly funded home-care programmes for older people and the concept of 'choice'. The post Direct funding and older people: why are we still...
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