Based on author's thesis (doctoral - School of Social and Political Sciences, 2017) issued under title: Beyond breadwinners, caregivers, martyrs and burdens: a new framework for managing competing claims in care and support policy. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- A feminist dilemma : support unpaid care or support paid work? -- The universal caregiver model : expanding options or imposing new limits? -- Disability rights and carers' advocacy : to reject or recognize care -- A disability rights informed ethics of care : interdependence and common humanity -- A new framework for designing rights-based care and support policy -- Income support for carers of children with disabilities in Australia : background and recent reforms to carer payment (child) -- Care, disability and gender equality in carers' income support : narrow choices and unheard voices -- Incorporating multiple options and perspectives : applying the care and support rights principles to carer payment (child) -- Care and support for adults in England : background and the recent Care Act reforms -- Care, disability and gender equality in English care and support policy : well-being for all with resources for a few? -- Maximizing options and opportunities : aligning the care act with the care and support rights principles -- Conclusions.
Summary:
"This book offers a set of principles for designing care and support policy to address two long-standing sources of tension in the field. The first is the tension between supporting women's unpaid caring roles and supporting their participation in paid work. The second is the tension between carers' claims for support based on the 'burden' of caring, and disability rights claims for measures that support the choice and independence of disabled people. Policies tend to favor one activity (unpaid care or paid work) and one constituency (carers or disabled people) over the other. In consequence, individuals' access to resources and choices about how they live their lives are constrained. Using a citizenship rights framework augmented with insights from human rights law and norms, the principles provide guidance for designing policy and legislation that avoids 'either/or' approaches and their negative consequences and addresses the interests of multiple constituencies. Case studies of recent reforms in Australia and England demonstrate the shortcomings of existing approaches for women, carers and people with disabilities, and the value of the principles for developing policy that reduces inequality, responds to 'failures' of neoliberalism and expands choice for all parties to care and support relationships"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.