Cash and Care: Policy challenges in the welfare state

Edited by Caroline Glendinning and Peter A. Kemp

Reviews

"This comprehensive and groundbreaking text provides the most up-to-date examination and critique of the interrelationships and changing boundaries between cash and care policy, delivery and theoretical developments in the UK and other advanced welfare states."

Professor Saul Becker, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, UK

"This rich and stimulating collection ... brings together original empirical material, theoretical perspectives and policy overviews in a wide-ranging, yet well integrated, contribution to our understanding of the relationship between cash and care. It should provide an invaluable resource for teachers, students, researchers and policy-makers."

Ruth Lister, Professor of Social Policy, Loughborough University, UK

24th April 2007 Community Care book review -

"The editors have assembled a fascinating array of contributors and topics that reflect this contemporary issue...it is comprehensive and far-reaching, looking at developments in the UK and overseas."

Gary Vaux, welfare rights expert

3rd April 2008 Journal of European Social Policy book review -

"(this book) opens up a new and fresh perspective on the aspects of money and the household. All the contributions of this book are well written and well researched...The individual contributions are all strong, and the articles have been picked with care to cover a wide spectrum of specific issues within the cash and care debates. Though there is a strong focus on the UK this is supplemented with many international comparisons, and the reader comes away with a deeper understanding of household care and cash issues as a whole."

Dorian R. Woods, University of Tübingen, Germany

29 May 2008 Community Care book review -

"This impressive set of policy papers explore how social policies for vulnerable people are less rigidly divided between cash for income maintenance, and care services provided by the state for those unable to work...The multitude of regulations is discarded in this book for a policy sweep of the underlying issues, and for that reason the book will add to the knowledge base of adult care managers and adult and community services policy makers"

Anthony Douglas, chief executive of Cafcass and chair of the British Association of Adoption and Fostering

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About the book

This interesting and wide-reaching book looks at the many and changing aspects of the current divide between income support and social care services. This book examines the new trends and policy developments that have called this divide into question. New evidence is presented on the links between cash and social disadvantage, care and disability. The cash in question includes that earned from paid work, social security benefits or payments for disabled people and carers. It offers:

• theorectical perspectives on the need for and provision of care, which some commentators have described as a 'new social risk'
• New insights into traditional forms of risk, such as poverty, disability, access to credit and money management
• Analysis of childcare and informal support for sick, disabled or elderly people in the context of increasing female market participation and the introduction of cash allowances to pay for care
• A new look at disabled people and older people in their roles as active citizens, whose views and experiences should help shape both policy and practice

Written by prominent researchers in the field, here and abroad, Cash and Care is essential reading for students, lecturers and researchers in social policy, applied social science, social work, and health and social care.

Published by The Policy Press which is the specialist publisher in the UK of social and public policy books, reports, journals and guides. As a not-for-profit organisation aiming to improve social conditions, The Policy Press are committed to publishing titles that will have an impact on research, teaching, policy and practice.

Edited by Caroline Glendinning, 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, the Barnett Professor of Social Policy at the University of Oxford. He was previously Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Social Policy Research Unit at the University of York

Contents

Part one: Introduction ~ Peter A. Kemp and Caroline Glendinning;

Part two:
New theoretical perspectives on care and policy: Care and gender: have the arguments for recognising carework now been won? ~ Jane Lewis;

Research on care: what impact on policy and planning? ~ Kari Waerness;

'Pseudo-democracy and spurious precision': knowledge dilemmas in the new welfare state ~ Eithne McLaughlin;

Part three:
Traditional forms of disadvantage: new perspectives: The cost of caring for a disabled child ~ Jan Pahl;

Disability, poverty and living standards: reviewing Australian evidence and policies ~ Peter Saunders;

Consumers without money: consumption patterns and citizenship among low-income families in Scandinavian welfare societies ~ Pernille Hohnen;

Affordable credit for low-income households ~ Sharon Collard;

Carers and employment in a work focused welfare state ~ Hilary Arksey and Peter A. Kemp;

Part four:
Families, care work and the state: Paying family care-givers: evaluating different models ~ Caroline Glendinning;

Developments in Austrian care arrangements: women between free choice and informal care ~ Margareta Kreimer;

When informal care becomes a paid job: the case of personal assistance budgets in Flanders ~ Jef Breda, David Schoenmaekers, Caroline Van Landeghem, Dries Claessens and Joanna Geerts;

Better-off in work? work, security and welfare for lone mothers ~ Jane Millar;

Reciprocity, lone parents and a state subsidy for informal childcare ~ Christine Skinner and Naomi Finch;

Helping out at home: children's contributions to sustaining work and care in lone-mother families ~ Tess Ridge;

Part five:
From welfare subjects to active citizens: Making connections: supporting new forms of engagement by marginalised groups ~ Karen Postle and Peter Beresford;

Independent living: the role of the disability movement in the development of government policy ~ Jenny Morris;

Securing the dignity and quality of life of older citizens ~ Hilary Land;

Part six: Conclusions ~ Caroline Glendinning and Peter A. Kemp