Privatizing the sacrifice: individualized funding, austerity and precarity in the voluntary sector in Australia and Scotland
| Autor: | Donna Baines, Ian Cunningham, Chandrima Roy, Philip James |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | The Changing Politics and Policy of Austerity ISBN: 9781447359531 The Changing Politics and Policy of Austerity |
| DOI: | 10.1332/policypress/9781447359517.003.0005 |
| Popis: | This chapter explores austerity in relation to two major pieces of social policy recently introduced in Australia and Scotland, namely the National Disabilities Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and Personalisation Self-Directed Care. Claiming to promote human rights and consumer choice, both policies introduce cash-for-care packages that significantly change for service users, the female-majority workforce, and the organisations providing services. Consistent with austerity, need for service outstrips supply, labour markets are being rapidly restructured to offer increasingly precarious and degraded employment, including the emergence of gig work in the Australia example, and service organisations in Scotland that are unable to remain solvent in the austerity-led funding regimes. Ideological themes associated with austerity underlie and are reinforced in these programs including a state-led argument that sacrifices, patience and understanding are required of service users while the programs are painstakingly rolled-out and funding packages assessed, reassessed, awarded, and denied. Rather than protecting and empowering service users and workers under these policies, the government has instigated the further privatization of services, and the deepening of insecurity. |
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