Fight The Power? Personalisation and power in England
Fight The Power? Personalisation and power in England Chris Hatton This is my first tentative foray into blogging, and as an academic who generally likes to talk about data and is wary of too much theoretical abstraction this is a weird first blog for me to write. It has been prompted by a question posed by Martin Routledge (currently Head of Operations for In Control) on Twitter, which went as follows (I’ve added some vowels…): “Reflecting that we are good about talking about personalisation, less willing to accept ways of actually transferring power to people – why? Institutional history of services? Risk averse organisations? Interests of commissioners, providers, staff not same as people using?” I’ve worked with In Control for over a decade on a series of tools to evaluate the impact of personalisation on people using self-directed support and family members, and variants of this question (“Why do powerful people find it so hard to give power away?”) have never been far from my min...