ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the personalisation agenda in social care in England from an ethic of care perspective. It provides an analytical framework developed by Selma Sevenhuijsen specifically to interrogate policy documents from this perspective and to evaluate the normative frameworks of care contained within them. The chapter considers the consequences of retaining such boundaries for the way in which the policy of personalisation has been conceived. It describes what policy documents reveal in relation to an ethic of care under a number of headings and reflect on what this suggests about broader issues relating to the delivery of welfare and the achievement of social justice for disabled people, older people and others who need more than usual support in order to live their lives. The chapter explores the implications of the personalisation approach to the personal circumstances of individual disabled people, people who live with mental health problems.
