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The treatment of informal care-related risks as social risks
— an analysis of the English care policy system | | Author(s) | Fiona Morgan |
| Journal title | Journal of Social Policy, vol 47, no 1, January 2018 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, January 2018 |
| Pages | pp 179-196 |
| Full text* | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279417000265 |
| Annotation | The social risk literature examines the extent to which states have provided social protection against the 'old' social risks of the post-war era and the 'new' social risks which affect post-industrial capitalist states. The author discusses the contingency of the provision of informal care to people aged 65+. The concept of social risk is deconstructed, to determine the characteristics and processes contributing to states recognising specific contingencies as social risks which require social protection. This conceptualisation is applied to make the case that care-related risks associated with the informal care of older people should be recognised and treated as social risks by states. Data from a qualitative study of the English care policy system provide empirical evidence that informal care-related risks are recognised, but not treated, as social risks in England. The findings reveal that informal carers (and the older people they care for) receive inadequate and inconsistent statutory protection against the poverty and welfare risks they face. Furthermore, the design and operationalising of the English care policy system generates risks for care relationships. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180105205 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: CA3: IK: I: TM2: 3DP: 82 |
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