Colin Slasberg

Jan 9, 2024 | e-elgar.com | Peter Beresford |Colin Slasberg

‘The book shows the way from a charity-welfare paradigm to a rights-based person-centred model. Hugely relevant not only in the UK but globally.’ – Teppo Kroger, University of Jyväskylä, Finland‘This book is exactly what is needed now. Government and professionals alike are deeply struggling with the complex social care crisis. I know, I sit on the House of Lord''s Adult Social Care Select Committee.

Jul 18, 2023 | elgaronline.com | Peter Beresford |Colin Slasberg

Social care presents us with a double irony. It seems to be perceived politically as something simple anyone can do if pressed. Yet, it deals with some of the most complex and intimate aspects of the human experience - our need for control over our lives and to remain part of the mainstream. In that sense social care is more complex than rocket science. Yet social care policy has been made complex in another unhelpful way, as one of the most obscure and neglected of all public policies.

Jul 18, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Peter Beresford |Colin Slasberg

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Foreword by David Brindle In the face of major global demographic change, social care policy and practice are in urgent need of radical reform and reassessment. Rising poverty, inequality and pressure on local communities internationally, are also increasing the urgent need for reform.

Jul 18, 2023 | elgaronline.com | Peter Beresford |Colin Slasberg

This chapter draws on the evidence from a major independent national research and development study which explored with service users, carers, practitioners and middle managers; what person-centred practice meant to them; how to develop it effectively; what barriers stood in its way and how these might be overcome.