Austerity, rationing and inequity: trends in children's and young peoples' services expenditure in England between 2010 and 2015
Austerity, rationing and inequity: trends in children's and young peoples' services expenditure in England between 2010 and 2015
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10.1080/03003930.2018.1430028
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
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1.9
通讯作者：
Bywaters, Paul
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作者：
Webb, Calum J. R.;Bywaters, Paul
本文调查了2010年至2015年英国地方政府（LA）在儿童和青少年服务方面的支出趋势，这是一个以财政紧缩措施为特征的政府时期。我们利用配给框架来分析观察中的支出水平和趋势。文章分析了各种支出分组的趋势，使用潜在增长建模方法来确定具有不同剥夺三分位成员的LA之间的支出的重要轨迹。我们发现，虽然在此期间，某些类型的儿童和青少年服务支出基本上保持不变，但预防性家庭支助和早期干预服务（如扎实起步儿童中心）的支出大幅减少，与儿童服务受到保护的主流说法形成对比。最贫困的三分之一地区的地方行政机构面临着最大的削减，这反映了关于紧缩措施分配的其他研究结果。
This article investigates local authority (LA) trends in expenditure on Children's and Young Peoples' services in England between 2010 and 2015, a period of government characterised by measures of fiscal austerity. We draw on a rationing framework to contextualise the levels and trends in expenditure under observation. The article analyses trends in various groupings of expenditure, using a latent growth modelling approach to identify significant trajectories in spending across LAs with different deprivation tertile membership. We find that although some kinds of children's and young peoples' services expenditure have been largely maintained during this period, preventive family support and early intervention services (such as Sure Start Children's centres) have seen substantial reductions in expenditure, in contrast to the dominant narrative that children's services have been protected. LAs in the most deprived tertile have faced the greatest cuts, mirroring other research findings on the distribution of austerity measures.