Download or read book Social Care in the UK’s Four Nations written by Catherine Needham and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two decades have passed since the devolution of social care policy, with key differences emerging between the UK’s four systems, but what impact have these differences had? This book presents for the first time research on the perspectives of social care policy makers on the four systems in which they operate and the ways in which they borrow from one another. Drawing on extensive interviews with national and local policy makers across the UK, the book raises vital questions about the role of ‘standardisation’ and ‘differentiation’ in social care, concluding that when given equal capacity to reform their respective systems, the regimes in each nation may take radically different shapes.