Personalisation schemes in social care: are they growing social and health inequalities?

E Malbon, G Carey, A Meltzer - BMC Public Health, 2019 - Springer
Background The connection between choice, control and health is well established in the
literature on the social determinants of health, which includes choice and control of vital …

[图书][B] National disability insurance scheme (NDIS) costs: Study report

Productivity Commission - 2017 - apo.org.au
Background The Heads of Agreement between the Commonwealth and the States and
Territories (States) on the NDIS stated that the Commission would undertake a review of …

Factors that influence the quality of paid support for adults with acquired neurological disability: scoping review and thematic synthesis

M Topping, JM Douglas, D Winkler - Disability and Rehabilitation, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Theoretically, individualised funding schemes empower people with disability
(PWD) to choose high quality support services in line with their needs and preferences …

Wage theft, underpayment and unpaid work in marketised social care

F Macdonald, E Bentham… - The Economic and …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Marketised models of social care provision in Australia are placing pressures on service
providers and driving changes in work organisation and employer practices, with potential to …

Regulating for gender-equitable decent work in social and community services: Bringing the state back in

F Macdonald, S Charlesworth - Journal of Industrial …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This article explores the potential of regulatory and policy reform for gender-equitable
decent work in social and community services, a rapidly growing sector of female …

[图书][B] Individualising risk

F Macdonald - 2021 - Springer
In 2020 the global coronavirus pandemic turned a spotlight on social care workers providing
long-term care as, along with healthcare workers, they faced new risks at the frontline of …

Safeguarding in Australia's new disability markets: Frontline workers' perspectives

N Cortis, G Van Toorn - Critical Social Policy, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite significant efforts to end it, violence, abuse and neglect continue to contribute to
preventable harms and deaths among people using disability services. To explore why …

Individualised funding and its implications for the skills and competencies required by disability support workers in Australia

M Moskos, L Isherwood - Labour and Industry, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Within Australia, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has been
heralded as one of the most significant social policy initiatives of recent times. The …

The implementation of complex social policy: Institutional layering and unintended consequences in the National Disability Insurance Scheme

A Nevile, E Malbon, A Kay… - Australian Journal of Public …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we identify the unfolding unintended consequences which flow from one
instance of policy layering in Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). We …

Re-imagining decent work for home care workers in Australia

S Charlesworth, J Malone - Labour & Industry: a journal of the …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The progress in Australia towards the full industrial recognition of home care work as
'work'has stalled. This paper draws on International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention …