Care, community and citizenship: Research and practice in a changing policy context

✍ Scribed by Susan Balloch (editor); Michael Hill (editor)

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 313
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection focuses on the relationship between social care, community and citizenship, linking them in a way relevant to both policy and practice. It explores key concepts, policies, issues and relationships and draws on contrasting illustrations from England and Scotland. The authors examine the ethics of care exploring the theoretical and moral complexities for both those receiving and those delivering care. The book also incorporates practice-based chapters on anti-social behaviour, domestic violence, community capacity to care, black and minority ethnic care, volunteering, befriending and home care and provides international comparisons and perspectives with chapters from Sweden, Germany and Japan.

✦ Table of Contents

Care, community and citizenship
Contents
List of tables and figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Introduction
Part One: Care, community and citizenship in the delivery of welfare
The role of communities in care
Care, citizenship and community in the UK
Care, citizenship and community in Scotland
Part Two: Ethics, care and community
Participation, citizenship and a feminist ethic of care
Ethical dilemmas of front-line regeneration workers
Citizenship and care for people with dementia
Part Three: Bridging the gaps: a practice-based approach
Rough justice, enforcement or support
Survivors of domestic violence, community and care
Promoting choice and control
Community care development
Neighbourhood Care Scheme
Challenging stigma and combating social exclusion through befriending
Paid care workers in the community
Part Four: Comparative perspectives
The care of older people in Sweden
From old to new forms of civic engagement
The social care system for older people in Japan
Conclusion
Index