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Social Policy, Service Users and Carers

Lived Experiences and Perspectives

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  • © 2021

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Editors:
  1. Clive Sealey

    1. School of Allied Health and Community, University of Worcester, Worcester, UK

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  2. Joy Fillingham

    1. Department of Social Work and Social Care, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

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  3. Peter Unwin

    1. School of Allied Health and Community, University of Worcester, Worcester, UK

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  • Analyses the issues facing service users and carers from the perspective of the service users themselves
  • Relevant to core student modules on Social Policy and Social Work courses
  • Looks at a wide range of service user groups including carers, mental health survivors, people with long-term physical disabilities, care leavers, survivors of domestic violence and people with dementia

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Clive Sealey, Peter Unwin, Joy Fillingham
    Pages 1-14

  3. Co-production: Rationale, Processes and Application to this Book

    • Clive Sealey, Joy Fillingham, Peter Unwin
    Pages 15-28

  4. Experiences of Care Services in Childhood and Beyond

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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    2. Living with Care Orders: Turning Pain into Passion

      • Francesca Crozier-Roche, Joy Fillingham
      Pages 31-49

    3. Improving Transitions for Independence to Adulthood for Care Leavers

      • Charles Mark English-Peach, Clive Sealey
      Pages 51-65

    4. The Realities of Fostering in a Flawed System

      • Vivienne Tongue, Joy Fillingham
      Pages 67-82

  5. Negotiating the Strictures and Structures of Being a Service User and Carer

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. Benefits and Employment Support for Vulnerable and Disabled People

      • Joanne*, Becki Meakin, Jon Andrew Powton, Peter Unwin
      Pages 85-101

    3. Living with Long-Term Disability and Care: A Perspective on the Adequacy of Provision and Areas for Improvements

      • Julia Louise Therese Smith, Clive Sealey
      Pages 103-123

    4. Direct Payments: Rationalising, Processes and Improving

      • Mark Lynes, Clive Sealey
      Pages 125-142

  6. The Lived Experiences of Limiting and Limited Policy, Practice and Services

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. Children in Need/Looked-After Children: Analysing the Adequacy of the Care System

      • Dionne*, Dorothy*, Clive Sealey
      Pages 145-161

    3. Mental Health: Services and Struggles

      • Chantele Harvey Head, Joy Fillingham
      Pages 163-175

    4. Lived Experiences of Domestic Abuse, Domestic Violence and Intimate Partner Violence

      • Janine*, Eva*, David John Sambrook Gowar, Peter Unwin
      Pages 177-192

    5. Informal Carers and Caring

      • Christine Ransome-Wallis, Bob Conner, Barbara Pugh, Peter Unwin
      Pages 193-210

    6. Social Policy, Service Users and Carers: Proposals for Improving Policy and Practice

      • Clive Sealey, Joy Fillingham, Peter Unwin
      Pages 211-222

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 223-226
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About this book

This textbook provides a greater understanding of the lived effect that social policies have on service users and carers. While service user and carer involvement has become more and more prominent in social policy over recent years, it is rarely the case that the perspectives of service users and carers goes beyond consultation to truly meaningful involvement and co-production. This book is unique in that it has ten substantive co-produced chapters with service users and carers who have direct lived experiences of social policies. The chapters include lived experiences of direct payments, domestic violence and abuse, looked after children, being a foster carer, receiving long term health and social care, welfare to work, mental health, the transition to leaving care and being a carer.  


The ground-breaking textbook draws on these lived experiences to highlight key lessons that are relevant to social policy, and will provide an impetus towards changes to make such polices better support service users and carers.  We hope that this book will inspire academics, policy makers, students and practitioners but, most importantly, it will encourage service users and carers to come forward with their own narratives to further shape social policy.



Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Allied Health and Community, University of Worcester, Worcester, UK

    Clive Sealey, Peter Unwin

  • Department of Social Work and Social Care, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

    Joy Fillingham

About the editors

Clive Sealey is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Theory at the University of Worcester, UK


Joy Fillingham is Lecturer in Department of Social Work and Social Care, University of Birmingham, UK


Peter Unwin is Principal Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Worcester, UK


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