Care and Support Rights After Neoliberalism: Balancing Competing Claims Through Policy and Law (Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series)

Maker, Yvette

ISBN 10: 1108485200 / ISBN 13: 9781108485203

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Care and Support Rights After Neoliberalism: Balancing Competing Claims Through Policy and Law (Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108485200
• ISBN 13: 9781108485203
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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).