Trust, Transparency and Welfare: Third-Sector Adult Social Care Delivery and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the UK

Chaney, Paul; Sophocleous, Christala

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“…In broad terms, and since the 1990s devolution settlement, the Welsh Government has set itself a distinctive Welsh approach to policy making, characterised by its socialist and collectivist aspirations (Chaney & Sophocleous, 2021), and early indications of a polarised approach to policy making, in opposition to Westminster, can be identified in its early programme of Government. Published in 2005, 'Making the Connections' document from the Welsh Assembly set out plans to: increase citizen involvement and ensure equality of opportunity and universal access to high quality public services, via a process of collaboration and co-operation, rather than competition (Welsh Assembly Government January 2005).…”

Section: The Social Care and Well-being Policy Context In Walesmentioning

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“…The RPBs are designed to promote a pluralistic approach to welfare delivery (Chaney, 2021), and include a statutory duties to co-produce well-being outcome for all, bring together key delivery partners including; local government, third sector, and health boards. Despite the policy rhetoric of co-production however, these structures have been heavily criticised for their complexity, which commentators note has undermined the transparency of the system and in turn the type of deliberative democracy the system was designed to promote (Chaney & Sophocleous, 2021) Moreover, in response to the criticisms regarding delivery mechanisms for social care, the White Paper includes a commitment to establish a National Office to oversee a national framework for social care that would reduce complexity within sector and drive service improvement (Government, 2021) However, a package of change is clearly articulated by Welsh Government and one that is normatively consistent with the broad value base of an ethics of care and CA to well-being.…”

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An Exploration of the Concept of Well-being In Relation to the Care of Older People

Cheshire-Allen¹

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This research explores the concept of well-being as it applies to family carers of older people and the experiences of those carers in the light of a reworked version of that concept. The study is situated within a broader context of the ‘care crisis’ consisting of an increase in older age care demands alongside a decrease in the resource or care capacity to support demand, resulting in a so-called ‘care deficit’. Notions of ‘well-being’ have become nested within this crisis narrative. During the past five years, particularly in the UK, references to well-being have been explicitly embedded into social care welfare support programmes, and are used to determine and shape how care support services are delivered to carers and those requiring care. However, as well as being ubiquitous, the term is contentious. Its meaning in the care context has yet to be resolved, and in particular, scant critical attention has been paid to the term’s significance in the context of care for older people. This study responds to this knowledge gap by exploring the meaning and implication of well-being in the context of care of older people. This qualitative research study provides a full analysis of relevant theory, policy and empirical research addressing well-being and family carers. The central research question is: What is well-being in the context of family care of older people, and why does it matter? The research question is explored through an extended critical engagement with relevant well-being and care theoretical foundations (Nussbaum, 2011; Tronto, 2013) and through a policy analysis of the Social Services and Well-being Act (Wales) 2014. A novel theoretical framework founded upon a social justice perspective and drawing upon critical care ethics and the capability approach is developed. Through critical engagement with the latent meaning of well-being, I argue that the mainstream conception in the context of care is narrow and reductive. Based upon and reflecting ideas about older age and care that mute the value of care as an essential component of all human life and, have the potential in practice to limit and damage family carers’ lives and life chances. In the latter part of the thesis, this framework is applied to primary data gathered through thirty qualitative semi-structured interviews with family carers of older people in Wales. The analysis explores how ‘well-being’ as an enduring ideal defining what it means to live a ‘good life’ interacts with how care in older age is understood. The analysis identifies the key themes of well-being as a multidimensional and relational idea, freedom, choice, vulnerability and dependency. From these findings, I suggest that there is value in theorising an imperfect conception of well-being that acknowledges decline and dependence, particularly in older age care. Furthermore, I suggest a reformulation of well-being in the context of older age care, based upon acknowledging relationality, inequalities and socio-political and cultural contexts. Such a conception, I argue, has the potential to provide a firmer basis on which to articulate and tackle well-being within social care policy and to combat harmful assumptions about the place of care of older people within those systems and the value of caring relationships themselves.

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Section: The Social Care and Well-being Policy Context In Walesmentioning

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Section: The Social Care and Well-being Policy Context In Walesmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Exploration of the Concept of Well-being In Relation to the Care of Older People

Cheshire-Allen¹

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No Longer ‘Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards’? Advances in Local State-Voluntary and Community Sector Relationships During Covid-19

Cook

Thiery²,

Burchell³

2023

J. Soc. Pol.

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Despite the significant influence of localism on policy discourses in the UK in recent decades, there has been limited evidence of any fundamental changes in state-civil society relationships. The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 created a new context for cross-sectoral collaboration, as the local Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) and local communities moved to the forefront of the crisis response. This paper draws upon 49 semi-structured interviews with local authorities (LAs) and VCS organisations across England, Scotland and Wales, to explore how the pandemic has reshaped LA-VCS collaboration. Examining the evolution of a range of local collaborative frameworks during the Covid-19 crisis, the article examines what enabled these collaborations to develop, how they operated and what insights can be derived regarding both the conditions for collaboration to flourish and the capacity to sustain this going forward. The findings offer insights into what more progressive forms of collaboration might look like during the transition from crisis and into recovery. It contributes to broader debates about whether the models deployed during Covid-19 represent a pathway to more consensus-based collaboration after a decade of antagonism between civil society and the state.

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Reconceptualizing the Nation in Sanctuary Practices: Toward a Progressive, Relational National Politics?

Wyn Edwards,

Dafydd Jones

2024

International Political Sociology

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This article explores sanctuary in Wales, focusing on the Welsh Government’s recent declaration to become a Nation of Sanctuary (NoS), and identifying how the national scale provides an alternative locus for progressive sanctuary measures. In revealing the nation’s emergence as another crucial site of sanctuary, the work reconceptualizes the nation’s place in sanctuary policies and practices in two ways: (i) it locates sanctuary through a national scale, thus moving beyond the city/state dichotomy that has dominated explanations of sanctuary, and (ii) it shows the importance of decoupling the nation-state compound while simultaneously integrating the nation(al) into discussions on sanctuary without being bound to the state or xenophobic populism. In showing how “nations against the state” can participate in sanctuary measures, we expand the current understanding of where sanctuary can be found, and capture the various forms of national belonging and identities that exist within plurinational states, including alternative, progressive forms of civic belonging. This is particularly significant in light of the tightening of state immigration policies, greater regulation of immigrant entry at state borders, and continuation of restrictive citizenship policies witnessed in recent years, which have ignited sanctuary measures aimed at creating safe spaces beyond the reach of state measures.

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Trust, Transparency and Welfare: Third-Sector Adult Social Care Delivery and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the UK

Cited by 4 publications

References 32 publications

An Exploration of the Concept of Well-being In Relation to the Care of Older People

An Exploration of the Concept of Well-being In Relation to the Care of Older People

No Longer ‘Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards’? Advances in Local State-Voluntary and Community Sector Relationships During Covid-19

Reconceptualizing the Nation in Sanctuary Practices: Toward a Progressive, Relational National Politics?

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