Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Personalisation, EPUB eBook

Personalisation EPUB

Edited by Peter Beresford

Part of the Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work series

EPUB

Please note: eBooks can only be purchased with a UK issued credit card and all our eBooks (ePub and PDF) are DRM protected.

Description

Personalisation has become the policy buzz-word of the twenty-first century.

Supporters claim it offers service users choice and services attuned to meet their specific needs, moving away from 'one size fits all' state services.

In this short form book, part of the Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work series, Peter Beresford, one of Britain's foremost social work academics, challenges the personalisation agenda and its consequences on service users.

Although critical of 'one size fits all' services that deny service user voice, Beresford argues that personalisation turns service users into 'consumers' of services within a care market and hence reinforces the commodification of care which sees vast profits made by a small number of providers at the expense of good quality services for those who use them.

Information

Information

Also in the Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work series  |  View all