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Community capital and the role of the state : an empowering approach to personalisation

Jones, Patricia A. (2013) Community capital and the role of the state : an empowering approach to personalisation. Working Paper. Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC), Birmingham.

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Abstract

Personalisation was a key element in reform to the Adult and Social Care system in England exploring long-term funding options in response to demographic change where people are increasingly living longer with complex conditions and needs (Department of Health, 2007). Personal budgets are central to this reform to enable recipients of social care to choose and commission their own services. Reform was not expected to require structural reorganisation but local authority leadership to promote genuine partnerships between social care providers, users and their carers as well as the wider community. However, there is potential for a shift in power to service users which goes beyond collaboration, especially where there is scope to build long-term relationships around long-term needs.
This study is based on one local authority partner’s innovative development of local communities’ social capital around personal budgets for vulnerable adults, which took up the challenge that “personalisation has the potential to deliver services in new and different ways that are nearer to what service users and their carers want and need”. One of the gaps in research regards the crucial role of carers, which is fundamental to the personalisation agenda reaching its real objectives. Taking an asset-based approach to informal care via social networks, the local authority was able to empower a community-run organisation in one of its most deprived and diverse wards by brokering support for vulnerable residents and embracing a neighbourhood perspective to examine collective as well as individual solutions.

Type of Work:Monograph (Working Paper)
School/Faculty:Colleges (2008 onwards) > College of Social Sciences
Department:School of Social Policy, Third Sector Research Centre
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Date:October 2013
Keywords:Social/community capital, the state, asset-based approach, personalisation
Subjects:H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
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Funders:Economic and Social Research Council , Office for Civil Society, Cadbury Barrow Trust
Copyright Holders:TSRC
ID Code:1854

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