SOWK 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Case Government, Neoliberalism, Canada Health Act
16 Feb 2018
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The redistribution model between the actors: redistribution agents (government, charities, private) allocate benefits to society society makes payments towards financing (taxation) payment goes to redistribution agents. Consequences of the challenges of the social welfare matrix. Public provision of benefits have increasingly given way to reliance on families, communities, and the voluntary and charitable sections, and an associated growth in the commercial or private for- profit sector". Mode of service delivery outside the boundaries of the government": so what are the economic and ideological cases for privatization. Private sector can do it better": effectiveness, efficiency and cost minimization. Forms of privatization: foster care, child care, employee assistance programs, educational programs in prisons, outsourcing functions payroll, human resources, it, materials management. Selling privatization: customer empowerment, control over decision-making, efficient, effectiveness. Social policy and quality: how can quality in social services be measured, how do you ensure quality, what is commodification of care.
