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'We live in a time of strange paradoxes. Nowhere are these more evident than in the area of direct payments and the personalisation of care. A policy promoted by the most militant disability movement in history was taken up and implemented by a right-wing onservative government in the 1990s and now, under a New Labour government committed to neo-liberal policies, is increasingly promoted as the model for all adult care services. The policy is hailed by ctivists as the most empowering development ever seen in the sphere of disability and opposed by public sector trade unionists as a Trojan horse for privatisation. A degree of confusion and disorientation is therefore understandable. This edited collection by Charlotte Pearson provides a useful guide through this ideological fog of competing policy discourses.' Research, Policy and Planning

'We live in a time of strange paradoxes. Nowhere are these more evident than in the area of direct payments and the personalisation of care. A policy promoted by the most militant disability movement in history was taken up and implemented by a right-wing onservative government in the 1990s and now, under a New Labour government committed to neo-liberal policies, is increasingly promoted as the model for all adult care services. The policy is hailed by ctivists as the most empowering development ever seen in the sphere of disability and opposed by public sector trade unionists as a Trojan horse for privatisation. A degree of confusion and disorientation is therefore understandable. This edited collection by Charlotte Pearson provides a useful guide through this ideological fog of competing policy discourses.' Research, Policy and Planning - -

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Charlotte Pearson is Lecturer in Public Policy at the Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow. Her research has focused on the implementation of direct payments across the UK.

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