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Personalisation in disability services and healthcare: A critical comparative analysis

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Personalisation is a key term in contemporary British social policy. This article conceptualises personalisation as embodying two aspects – marketisation and social justice – and explores their interaction in discourses and practices of personalisation in disability services and healthcare. Comparing the application and reception of personalisation in these two social policy domains, the article identifies a tendency of marketisation to override social justice and highlights the negative implications of this tendency. The analysis is further contextualised by looking at the uses of personalisation to legitimise retrenchment of public provision in the context of post-2008 austerity. In conclusion, the article calls for a critical engagement with the dominant interpretations of personalisation in order to prevent its reduction to a vehicle for unchecked marketisation of social policy.

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Series Title

Critical Social Policy

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Publisher

Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications., 2015

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0261-0183

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Volume 35, Isuue 3 Agustus 2015, pages 307-326

Subject(s)

Social Justice
Disability services
Marketisation
Personalisation

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