Personalisation policy in the lives of people with learning disabilities: A call to focus on how people build their lives relationally

Power, Andrew, Coverdale, Andy, Croydon, Abigail, Hall, Edward, Kaley, Alex ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1147-1604, Macpherson, Hannah and Nind, Melanie (2022) Personalisation policy in the lives of people with learning disabilities: A call to focus on how people build their lives relationally. Critical Social Policy, 42 (2). pp. 220-240. ISSN 0261-0183

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Abstract

Social care provision across high-income countries has been transformed over the last ten years by personalisation – a policy agenda to give people with eligible support needs more choice and control over their support. Yet the ideological underpinnings of this transformation remain highly mutable, particularly in the context of reduced welfare provision that has unfolded in many nations advancing personalisation. How the policy has manifested itself has led to an expectation for people to self-build a life as individual consumers within a care market. This article draws on a study exploring how people with learning disabilities in England and Scotland are responding to the everyday realities of personalisation as it is enacted where they live and show the relationality inherent in their practices. We propose that the personalisation agenda as it currently stands (as an individualising movement involving an increasing responsibilisation of individuals and their families) ignores the inherently relational nature of care and support. We propose that social care policy needs to recognise the relational ways in which people build their lives and to advocate a redistribution of responsibility to reduce inequalities in the allocation of care.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Funding Information: The research was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (Reclaiming social care: Adults with learning disabilities seizing opportunities in the shift from day services to community lives. Ref: ES/P011764/1).
Uncontrolled Keywords:	austerity,intellectual disability,personalisation,relationality,social care,political science and international relations ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3320
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Sociology
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	03 Jan 2025 01:05
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2025 00:59
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/98076
DOI:	10.1177/02610183211004534

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