Care and Support Rights After Neoliberalism

Introduction; Part I. Care Policy Tensions: 1. A feminist dilemma: support unpaid care or support paid work?; 2. The universal caregiver model: expanding options or imposing new limits?; 3. Disability rights and carers' advocacy: to reject or to recognize care; 4. A disability rights informed ethics of care: interdependence and common humanity; Part II. Balancing Competing Claims through Rights-Based Policy: 5. A new framework for designing rights-based care and support policy; Part III. Care and Support Policy Tensions in Two Liberal Welfare States: 6. Income support for carers of children with disabilities in Australia: background and recent reforms to carer payment; 7. Care, disability, and gender equality in carers' income support: narrow choices and unheard voices; 8. Incorporating multiple options and perspectives: applying the care and support rights principles to carer payment; 9. Care and support for adults in England: background and the recent Care Act reform; 10. Care, disability, and gender equality in English care and support policy: well-being for all with resources for a few?; 11. Maximizing options and opportunities: aligning the Care Act with the care and support rights principle; Conclusions.