02716namaa2200625uu 4500 oapen62478 oapen 20251217011904.0 a||||fo|||||||||0| cr|mn|---annan 240424s2023a||||fo|||||||||0|eng d 9781447364641 9781447364665 isbn 9781447364672 10.47674/99781447364672 doi oapen oapen eng dc J thema JK thema JKS thema JP thema JPR thema M thema MB thema MBP thema Hall, Patrick edt Social Care in the UK's Four Nations Between Two Paradigms Bristol Policy Press 2023 1 online resource (226 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star 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. Open licence https://oapen.org/article/rights eng Health systems and services thema Medicine and Nursing thema Medicine: general issues thema Politics and government thema Regional, state and other local government thema Social services and welfare, criminology thema Social welfare and social services thema Society and Social Sciences thema Ageing Care regimes Comparative care Devolution Social care Hall, Patrick aut Needham, Catherine aut OAPEN Library. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62478 Free-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication 0 37949 37949