Abstract
This article reports on a study of social work practice with care recipients choosing to relocate between English local administrative units. Data were collected from interviews with 20 social work practitioners from three areas, seeking their views through the use of vignettes. Participants reported that supporting relocation: requires time and planning; is conceptualised as a key transition for those moving; and exposes practitioners (and care recipients) to local variations and the potential for risk, and therefore uncertainty. New legal rights for care recipients may decrease the problems, but local variations will remain.
Highlights
An estimated 2.85 million people moved between local authorities in England and Wales between July 2014 and June 2015 (Office for National Statistics, 2015)
In England local authorities are the administrative units with responsibilities for most publicly funded social care
There is some evidence that people in receipt of publicly funded social care who move to a new local authority area may find this more difficult than others without such needs
Summary
An estimated 2.85 million people moved between local authorities in England and Wales between July 2014 and June 2015 (Office for National Statistics, 2015). A scoping review carried out as part of the present study found no studies had addressed relocation with social care support as a primary research question; some research identified problems associated with relocation in the context of other life changes (White et al, 2016). Such problems included losing (and fear of losing) care; delays and disruption; ‘last minute’ decision making (National Union of Student (NUS) n.d., Dilnot, 2011; Sayce, 2011; Arksey and Baxter, 2012). The transition to a new local authority was often experienced as complex, disjointed and lacking in continuity (White et al, 2016; Marsland et al, 2018)
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