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Austerity, Personalised Funding and the Degradation of Care Work: Comparing Scotland’s Self-Directed Support Policy and Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (2020)
Book Chapter
Baines, D., & Young, D. (2020). Austerity, Personalised Funding and the Degradation of Care Work: Comparing Scotland’s Self-Directed Support Policy and Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme. In D. Baines, & I. Cunningham (Eds.), Working in the Context of Austerity: Challenges and Struggles. Bristol University Press

Recruitment in the Voluntary Sector: Challenges and Opportunities (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Young, D., & Morrison-Gillies, C. Recruitment in the Voluntary Sector: Challenges and Opportunities

UK voluntary sector organisations are facing intense resourcing challenges in the wake of significant changes taking place in their recruitment context. In this paper, Doug Young reflects on particular challenges being faced by social care organisati... Read More about Recruitment in the Voluntary Sector: Challenges and Opportunities.

“I was never trained to do any of that” – personalisation and the impact of the “customer” on employment relations in voluntary sector social care (2020)
Journal Article
Young, D. (2020). “I was never trained to do any of that” – personalisation and the impact of the “customer” on employment relations in voluntary sector social care. Employee Relations, 42(5), 1117-1133. https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-01-2019-0096

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent and impact of customer-oriented norms on employment relations in voluntary sector social care, within the context of personalisation. Self-Directed Support (SDS) is premised on the notion th... Read More about “I was never trained to do any of that” – personalisation and the impact of the “customer” on employment relations in voluntary sector social care.

Influencing Employers so More People Break Free from Poverty through Work (2019)
Report
Findlay, P., Lindsay, C., Watson, A., & Young, D. (2019). Influencing Employers so More People Break Free from Poverty through Work. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation

In-work poverty describes the experiences of households where at least one person is in work and the household’s income after housing costs is below 60% of the median household income. Housing and other costs, the income provided by the in-work benef... Read More about Influencing Employers so More People Break Free from Poverty through Work.

Handing Back Contracts: Exploring the rising trend in third sector provider withdrawal from the social care market (2019)
Report
Cunningham, I., Baluch, A., James, P., Jendro, E., & Young, D. (2019). Handing Back Contracts: Exploring the rising trend in third sector provider withdrawal from the social care market. Edinburgh: Coalition of Care and Support Providers Scotland

The purpose of this report is to explore the experiences of and issues associated with processes of handing back social care contracts by voluntary sector providers of services. This research has come at a time of increasing concern regarding the sus... Read More about Handing Back Contracts: Exploring the rising trend in third sector provider withdrawal from the social care market.

Fair Work in Scotland’s Social Care Sector 2019 (2018)
Report
Lindsay, C., Findlay, P., Watson, A., & Young, D. (2018). Fair Work in Scotland’s Social Care Sector 2019. The Fairwork Foundation

This is the first report by the Fair Work Convention (FWC) since the Fair Work Framework was published. It is commissioned research from the University of Strathclyde on how frontline workers and their managers feel about their day to day work. We a... Read More about Fair Work in Scotland’s Social Care Sector 2019.

Caring Within Constraint: Employment Relations in Voluntary Sector Social Care in the context of Personalisation, Marketization and Austerity (2018)
Thesis
Young, D. Caring Within Constraint: Employment Relations in Voluntary Sector Social Care in the context of Personalisation, Marketization and Austerity. (Thesis). The University of Strathclyde. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2697406

This thesis examines the impact of personalisation, marketization and austerity on voluntary sector social care employment relations in post-recession Scotland. The prevalence of short-term funding contracts characterised by strict and often confinin... Read More about Caring Within Constraint: Employment Relations in Voluntary Sector Social Care in the context of Personalisation, Marketization and Austerity.

Direct Payments and Personal Budgets: Putting Personalisation into Practice, 3rd ed. By Jon Glasby and Rosemary Littlechild Bristol: Policy Press, 2016. ISBN: 978‐1‐4473‐2676‐2; £19.99 (pbk). [book review] (2017)
Journal Article
Young, D. (2017). Direct Payments and Personal Budgets: Putting Personalisation into Practice, 3rd ed. By Jon Glasby and Rosemary Littlechild Bristol: Policy Press, 2016. ISBN: 978‐1‐4473‐2676‐2; £19.99 (pbk). [book review]. Social Policy and Administration, 51(7), 1506-1508

No abstract is available for this article.

Self‐Directed Support: Personalisation, Choice and Control by Charlotte Pearson Julie Ridley and Susan Hunter Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press, 2014. ISBN 978‐1‐780460‐24‐6; £18.99 (pbk). [book review] (2015)
Journal Article
Young, D. (2016). Self‐Directed Support: Personalisation, Choice and Control by Charlotte Pearson Julie Ridley and Susan Hunter Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press, 2014. ISBN 978‐1‐780460‐24‐6; £18.99 (pbk). [book review]. Social Policy and Administration, 50(1), 120-122. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12200

Abstract not available.