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Social Policy and Personal Life: Changes in State, Family and Community in the Support of Informal Care

dc.contributor.author Shaver, Sheila en_US
dc.contributor.author Fine, Michael en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T12:33:51Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T12:33:51Z
dc.date.issued 1995 en_US
dc.description.abstract Recent developments in the provision of ongoing care have served to highlight the significance of informal caregiving for social policy, making private households the preferred site for the exercise of public responsibility for many of the most vulnerable and dependent citizens. We discuss two contemporary developments challenging policies which support informal caregiving. One is the post-industrial transformation of employment, which while supporting continued growth in female labour force participation is also reshaping the hours of work and stability of employment of women and men. A second concerns demands for policies which are responsive to social difference and distinctive values of care in communities of shared sexual, ethnic and religious identity. With these developments in mind, the paper explores the options for policy and briefly considers how these options might be implemented. Three approaches are canvassed: the enforcement of family responsibility through the withdrawal of public assistance; the relief of caregiving responsibilities by provision of alternative forms of support; and the development of a ‘shared care’ approach, based on a ‘partnership’ between the state, community and family. The paper suggests that while the third option is likely to prove the most viable and acceptable, it is necessary to ensure that alternatives to reliance on informal care are not neglected. en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 0733412874 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1447-8978 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/33995
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.publisher Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries SPRC Discussion Paper en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.title Social Policy and Personal Life: Changes in State, Family and Community in the Support of Informal Care en_US
dc.type Working Paper en
dcterms.accessRights open access
dspace.entity.type Publication en_US
unsw.accessRights.uri https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
unsw.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/197
unsw.publisher.place Sydney en_US
unsw.relation.faculty Arts Design & Architecture
unsw.relation.ispartofworkingpapernumber 65 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Shaver, Sheila, Social Policy Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Fine, Michael, Social Policy Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school Social Policy Research Centre *
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