Covid-19 and the Crisis in Social Care: Exploring the Experiences of Disabled People in the Pandemic

Governments across the world have been slow in reacting to meeting the needs of disabled people during the pandemic. This has exposed existing inequalities in social policies, as well as new support barriers. Debates over social care have focused on Covid-19's impact on those living in resident...

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Published in:Social policy and society : a journal of the Social Policy Association 2023-07, Vol.22 (3), p.515-530
Main Authors: Pearson, Charlotte, Watson, Nick, Brunner, Richard, Cullingworth, Jane, Hameed, Shaffa, Scherer, Nathaniel, Shakespeare, Tom
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Crises
Delayed
Disability
Funding
Home health care
Independent living
Inequality
Pandemics
People with disabilities
Residential care
Residential institutions
Social exclusion
Social inequality
Social services
Strength
Themed Section on Social Policy Responses and Institutional Reforms in the Pandemic
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Summary:Governments across the world have been slow in reacting to meeting the needs of disabled people during the pandemic. This has exposed existing inequalities in social policies, as well as new support barriers. Debates over social care have focused on Covid-19's impact on those living in residential care. Little is known about the experiences of disabled people who rely on daily support in their homes. This article reports on a year-long study examining the experiences of disabled people during the pandemic in England and Scotland. It focuses on the crisis in social care and offers evidence of how lives have been disrupted. For many, this resulted in a sudden loss of services, delayed assessments and break down of routines and communities. Findings underline the weakness of social care in its wider relationship with the NHS and show how the social care crisis has challenged the goal of independent living.
ISSN:1474-7464
1475-3073
DOI:10.1017/S1474746422000112