Personalisation / Peter Beresford ; with responses from Sarah Carr, Jim Main, Alan Roulstone, Pat Stack, Helga Pile, Roddy Slorach and Colin Slasberg.

By:

Beresford, Peter [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Critical and radical debates in social workPublisher: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2014Description: xi, 88 pages ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781447316145
1447316142

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

361.3 BER

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Thurles Library Main Collection	361.3 BER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100644013

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-88).

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Peter Beresford OBE is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Centre for Citizen Participation at Brunel University and Chair of Shaping Our Lives, the national service user and disabled people's organisation and network. He has a background as a long term user of mental health services and a longstanding involvement in issues of participation as writer, researcher, activist and educator.