Social care provision across high-income countries has been transformed over the last ten years by personalisation – a policy agenda to give people with eligible support needs more choice and control over their support. Yet the ideological underpinnings of this transformation remain highly mutable, particularly in the context of reduced welfare provision that has unfolded in many nations advancing personalisation. How the policy has manifested itself has led to an expectation for people to self-build a life as individual consumers within a care market. This article draws on a study exploring how people with learning disabilities in England and Scotland are responding to the everyday realities of personalisation as it is enacted where they live and show the relationality inherent in their practices. We propose that the personalisation agenda as it currently stands (as an individualising movement involving an increasing responsibilisation of individuals and their families) ignores the inherently relational nature of care and support. We propose that social care policy needs to recognise the relational ways in which people build their lives and to advocate a redistribution of responsibility to reduce inequalities in the allocation of care.

过去十年来，高收入国家/地区的社会护理提供已经通过个性化进行了转变-一项政策议程旨在为有资格的人提供更多选择并控制他们的支持。然而，这种转变的意识形态基础仍然高度可变，特别是在许多国家正在推进个性化的减少福利的情况下。该政策如何表现出来，导致人们期望人们在护理市场中以个人消费者的身份过上自己的生活。本文基于一项研究，探索英格兰和苏格兰的学习障碍者如何应对个性化的日常现实，因为这种现实是在他们居住的地方颁布的，并显示出其实践中固有的关系性。我们建议，当前的个性化议程（作为一项涉及个人及其家人日益增加的责任感的个性化运动）应忽略关怀和支持的内在关系性质。我们认为，社会护理政策需要认识到人们建立生活的关系方式，并倡导责任的重新分配，以减少护理分配中的不平等现象。