Research on care increasingly emphasises the “care‐less” or “uncaring” nature of state‐
coordinated interventions imposed on marginalised communities. However, these …

Using a case study of an Australian income support policy, Carer Payment (child), this thesis
proposes a set of principles for designing care and support policy to advance the rights of …

The work of thinking about, with, and through care is not the prerogative of any single
discipline or positionality, as this Special Issue vividly illustrates. Rather, its wide-ranging …

This article first considers aspects of Australian family policy as they developed particularly
under the Howard Government. In the second part of the paper, we outline an alternative …

In recent years, there has been increased activity on the part of legislators and policy-
makers as they attempt to reconcile paid work and unpaid care. This article explores the …

Published in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic which launched 'care'into public
discussion, The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence provides a radical vision of …

There are major challenges facing developed countries in the future provision of support
and care. Social work would seem to be well placed to offer constructive ways of thinking …

This article stems from a constructionist understanding of community care, drawing on the
work of Bytheway and Johnson on the social construction of community care and Heaton's …

It is widely recognised that everyone at some stage in their lives will require care, whether it
be in infancy or old age, at the end of life or due to illness or impairment. In these …

Care is a fundamental condition of human existence, an inherently social activity. Yet
surprisingly, care has only recently begun to receive serious attention from social …