John Burton describes how the institutional assumptions of the care system undermine the creativity and community that is possible when people live together.
Author: John Burton
In this discussion paper John Burton describes the way in which care homes and the people who live and work in them are subjugated and constricted by a social care system run and regulated for the benefit, protection and preservation of an elite of - mostly well-meaning - politicians, bureaucrats, care organisations and in a large part for the profits of owners and shareholders.
However, the author believes that there is an alternative, more hopeful, way to look at the same picture. In every care home there is another sort of institution trying to get out: a community formed of people in mutual caring relationships in search of self-determination, empowerment and liberation.
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The publisher is the Centre for Welfare Reform.
Liberating Institutions © John Burton 2016.
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community, Deinstitutionalisation, mental health, social care, England, Paper
