Needham, Catherine  <br/><br/>
Social Care in the UK's Four Nations  Between Two Paradigms 

 - Bristol  Policy Press  2023 
 - 1 online resource (226 p.) 
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<br/><br/> Chapter 4 and chapter 7 are available Open Access under  CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Two decades have passed since the devolution of social care policy, with key differences emerging between the UK's four systems, but what impact have these differences had? This book presents for the first time research on the perspectives of social care policy makers on the four systems in which they operate and the ways in which they borrow from one another.     Drawing on extensive interviews with national and local policy makers across the UK, the book raises vital questions about the role of 'standardisation' and 'differentiation' in social care, concluding that when given equal capacity to reform their respective systems, the regimes in each nation may take radically different shapes. 
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<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781447364641 9781447364665 99781447364672 ISBN 9781447364672 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.47674/99781447364672  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Health systems and services<br/>Regional, state and other local government<br/>Social welfare and social services
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Ageing; Care regimes; Comparative care; Devolution; Social care