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neilmcrowther
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...and crucially, Labour's global focus on public service reform, which permitted ideas generated by the independent living movement on choice & control to find further currency under the rubric of 'personalisation' culminating in Putting People First
While the Care Act codified a number of those principles and ideas, the broader context fell away, while austerity took the wind out of the sails. And now here we are, with social care largely reduced in political & media discourse to helping unclog hospitals.
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neilmcrowther
@neilmcrowther.bsky.social
Social change, social care, social life.
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