Adult social care services in England are struggling, and sometimes failing, to supply the
quality of care deserved by the most vulnerable people in society. The Care Quality …

Social care markets often rely on the for-profit sector to meet service demand. For-profit care
homes have been reported to suffer higher rates of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

This paper reports on in‐depth qualitative interviews conducted with 69 disabled people in
England and Scotland, and with 28 key informants from infrastructure organisations in the …

Objectives This study investigates the psychological well-being of informal caregivers over
time. It identifies the thresholds (or “tip** points”) of caring intensity at which caregiving is …

The increased private provision of publicly funded health and social care over the last 75
years has been one of the most contentious topics in UK public policy. In the last decades …

Abstract In the United Kingdom and further afield, policy discourse has focused on the
efficiencies technology will afford the care sector by increasing workforce capacity at a time …

Most residential children's social care services in England, including children's homes, are
operated by for-profit companies, but the implications of this development are not well …

In our study, we examine implementation of strength‐based practice (SBP) that invokes a
new way of working for social workers in England. We note two antecedent conditions to …

Adult social care was the first major social policy domain in England to be transferred from
the state to the market. There is now a forty-year period to look back at to consider the …

Existing models for the safe, timely and effective delivery of health and social care are
challenged by an ageing population. Services and care pathways are often optimised for …