ABSTRACT Personal budgets have been heavily promoted in government policy in England as a means of increasing the personalisation of public services, particularly in the field of adult social care. The Care Act 2014 for the first time creates a statutory requirement for personal budgets to be allocated to all individuals using state funded social care. This article examines how a particular rhetoric has developed in social care policy around personal budgets, which draws freely on the language of the disabled people’s movement and suggests that grassroots ideas are the central purpose for the introduction of personal budgets into policy. It considers whether the promises made in policy are embedded in the 2014 Act and finds that there is a mismatch between claims in social care policy on the one hand and the model of personal budgets created by the 2014 Act on the other. It concludes that the policy rhetoric around personal budgets directly appropriates the language and ideas of the disabled people’s movement while promoting a wholly distinct agenda of public sector marketisation.

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成人社会护理中的个人预算：2014 年护理法案的事实与虚构

摘要 英国政府政策中大力提倡个人预算，作为增加公共服务个性化的一种手段，特别是在成人社会关怀领域。2014 年《护理法》首次规定了将个人预算分配给所有使用国家资助的社会护理的个人的法定要求。本文探讨了围绕个人预算的社会关怀政策中的特定修辞是如何发展的，它自由地借鉴了残疾人运动的语言，并表明草根思想是将个人预算引入政策的核心目的。它考虑了政策中做出的承诺是否嵌入 2014 年法案，并发现一方面社会关怀政策中的要求与 2014 年法案创建的个人预算模型之间存在不匹配。它的结论是，围绕个人预算的政策修辞直接挪用了残疾人运动的语言和思想，同时促进了完全不同的公共部门市场化议程。