Relational legacies and relative experiences: Austerity, inequality and access to special educational needs and disability ( SEND ) support in London, England
Relational legacies and relative experiences: Austerity, inequality and access to special educational needs and disability ( SEND ) support in London, England
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关系遗产和相关经验：英国伦敦的紧缩、不平等以及获得特殊教育需求和残疾 (SEND) 支持的机会
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10.1111/geoj.12536
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2023
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Warnock R
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本文通过英国伦敦获得特殊教育需求和残疾 (SEND) 支持服务的视角，强调了自 2010 年以来国家主导的紧缩政策的相对遗产。借鉴伦敦行政区 SEND 支持团队为期四个月的机构民族志调查结果，以及对 15 名自闭症儿童家长照顾者进行的 43 次重复深入叙述性采访，本文重点关注了两位家长：爱丽丝和露西。比较爱丽丝和露西的经历显示了紧缩政策带来的微妙的关系遗产：有残疾和神经多样性儿童的家庭受到紧缩削减的影响尤为严重。然而，此外，他们的叙述还显示了他们获得帮助的相对经历：一些有残疾儿童的边缘化家庭发现在这种情况下比其他家庭更困难。然而，这一时期出现了新自由主义的精英神话，它掩盖了残疾儿童和神经多样性儿童家庭之间相对不平等扩大的根本结构性和系统性原因。这个神话表明，那些确实设法确保不断萎缩的 SEND 资源的家长照顾者只是比其他人更加努力地工作才能实现这一目标。结果是，家长照顾者（包括 Alice 和 Lucy）在同一时间、同一地点尝试导航和访问相同的 SEND 服务时有不同的体验。本文将关于紧缩、家庭、残疾和教育的地理和社会学工作结合起来，扩展了对紧缩与其影响之间关系的理解，并展示了这些遗产如何仍在发挥作用。
Through the lens of access to Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) support services in London, England, this paper highlights the relative legacies of state‐led austerity since 2010. Drawing on findings from a four‐month institutional ethnography with a London borough SEND support team and 43 repeat in‐depth narrative interviews with 15 parent carers with autistic children, this paper focuses in on two parents: Alice and Lucy. Comparing Alice and Lucy's experiences shows nuanced relational legacies of austerity: families with disabled and neurodiverse children have been disproportionately affected by austerity cuts. Additionally, however, their accounts show their relative experiences of accessing help: some more marginalised families with disabled children are finding it harder under these circumstances than others. Yet a neoliberal myth of meritocracy has emerged during this time which obscures the underlying structural and systemic reasons for widening relative inequality between families with disabled and neurodiverse children. This myth suggests that the parent carers who do manage to secure ever shrinking SEND resources have simply worked harder than others to get there. The result is that parent carers – including Alice and Lucy – have different experiences of trying to navigate and access the same SEND services, in the same place, at the same time. Bringing together geographical and sociological work on austerity, families, disability, and education, this paper extends understandings of how austerity is relational in its effects and shows how these legacies are still unfolding.