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

Susan Balloch and Michael Hill

Abstract

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 it. The book also incorporates practice-based chapters on anti-social behaviour, domestic violence, community capacity to care, black and minority ethnic care, volunteering, befriendi ... More

Keywords: social care, community, citizenship, England, Scotland, Sweden, Germany, Japan, domestic violence, volunteering

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2007 Print ISBN-13: 9781861348715
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781861348715.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Susan Balloch, editor

Michael Hill, editor

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

List of tables and figures

Acknowledgements

Notes on contributors

Introduction

Susan Balloch, and Michael Hill

Part One Care, community and citizenship in the delivery of welfare

One The role of communities in care

Michael Hill

Two Care, citizenship and community in the UK

Susan Balloch

Three Care, citizenship and community in Scotland

Alison Petch

Part Two Ethics, care and community

Four Participation, citizenship and a feminist ethic of care

Marian Barnes

Five Ethical dilemmas of front-line regeneration workers

Marjorie Mayo, Paul Hoggett, and Chris Miller

Six Citizenship and care for people with dementia: values and approaches

Tula Brannelly

Part Three Bridging the gaps: a practice-based approach

Seven Rough justice, enforcement or support: young people and their families in the community

Dawn E. Stephen, and Peter Squires

Eight Survivors of domestic violence, community and care

Paula Wilcox

Nine Promoting choice and control: black and minority ethnic communities' experience of social care in Britain

Jabeer Butt

Ten Community care development: developing the capacity of local communities to respond to their own support and care needs

Deborah Quilgars

Eleven Neighbourhood Care Scheme: the ‘Coronation Street’ model of community care

Marylynn Fyvie-Gauld, and Sean de Podesta

Twelve Challenging stigma and combating social exclusion through befriending

Bill McGowan, and Claire Jowitt

Thirteen Paid care workers in the community: an Australian study

Jane Mears

Part Four Comparative perspectives

Fourteen The care of older people in Sweden

Christina Hjorth Aronsson

Fifteen From old to new forms of civic engagement: communities and care in Germany

Frank Bönker

Sixteen The social care system for older people in Japan and the role of informal care: Long-term Care Insurance five years on

Michihiko Tokoro

Conclusion

Susan Balloch, and Michael Hill

End Matter

Index