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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2009

Alan Roulstone  and
Hannah Morgan
Alan Roulstone
Affiliation:
De Montfort University, Gateway, Leicester E-mail: AROULSTONE@DMU.AC.UK
Hannah Morgan
Affiliation:
Department of Social Work, Lancaster University, Bowland North, Lancaster
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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.

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Social Policy and Society , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , July 2009 , pp. 333 - 345
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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