Care and Support Rights After Neoliberalism: Balancing Competing Claims Through Policy and Law

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Yvette Maker (University of Melbourne)

Care and Support Rights After Neoliberalism

Balancing Competing Claims Through Policy and Law

Yvette Maker (University of Melbourne)

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English

Cambridge University Press
28 April 2022

Comparative politics; Law & society; Disability & the law

Series: Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series

This book offers principles for designing care and support policy to address two persistent sources of tension in the field. The first is the tension between supporting women's unpaid caring and supporting their paid work participation. The second is the tension between carers' claims for support based on the 'burden' of caring and disability rights claims for support for choice and independence for people with disabilities. Policies tend to favor one activity and one constituency over the other. Consequently, individuals' access to resources and choices about how they live are constrained. Using a citizenship rights framework, with insights from human rights law, the principles provide guidance for designing policy and legislation that avoids 'either/or' approaches and addresses the interests of multiple constituencies. Analyses of Australian and English policies demonstrate the value of the principles for developing policy that reduces inequality, responds to 'failures' of neoliberalism, and expands choice for all.

By: Yvette Maker (University of Melbourne)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 158mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 630g
ISBN: 9781108485203
ISBN 10: 1108485200
Series: Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
Pages: 225
Publication Date: 28 April 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; Part I. Care Policy Tensions: 1. A feminist dilemma: support unpaid care or support paid work?; 2. The universal caregiver model: expanding options or imposing new limits?; 3. Disability rights and carers' advocacy: to reject or to recognize care; 4. A disability rights informed ethics of care: interdependence and common humanity; Part II. Balancing Competing Claims through Rights-Based Policy: 5. A new framework for designing rights-based care and support policy; Part III. Care and Support Policy Tensions in Two Liberal Welfare States: 6. Income support for carers of children with disabilities in Australia: background and recent reforms to carer payment; 7. Care, disability, and gender equality in carers' income support: narrow choices and unheard voices; 8. Incorporating multiple options and perspectives: applying the care and support rights principles to carer payment; 9. Care and support for adults in England: background and the recent Care Act reform; 10. Care, disability, and gender equality in English care and support policy: well-being for all with resources for a few?; 11. Maximizing options and opportunities: aligning the Care Act with the care and support rights principle; Conclusions.

Yvette Maker is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Melbourne's Social Equity Institute and the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics. She holds qualifications in Law, Arts (Psychology) and Social and Political Sciences. Prior to embarking on an academic career, Yvette worked in research and policy roles in non-profit and government bodies and has provided research support to the Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. With Bernadette McSherry she edited Restrictive Practices in Health Care and Disability Settings: Legal, Policy and Practical Responses (2021).