Neo-Liberal Individualism or Self-Directed Support: Are We All Speaking the Same Language on Modernising Adult Social Care?

Alan Roulstone, Hannah Morgan

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    Abstract

    This article explores recent developments in the modernisation of adult social care through the lens of changes to English day services. Drawing on wider policy debates, it argues that Disabled Peoples' Movement and governmental ideas on self-directed support, although superficially similar, are growing increasingly apart. It is argued that in the absence of adequate funding and exposure to organisations of disabled people, day service recipients risk moving from a position of enforced collectivism to an enforced individualism characteristic of neo-liberal constructions of economic life.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)333
    JournalSocial Policy and Society
    Volume8
    Issue number03
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2009

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