Social Policy Support For Families in the UK and South Korea: To What Extent Does Family Support Create Inclusive Growth and Social Cohesion?

家庭友好型社会政策与实现包括包容性增长和社会凝聚力在内的联合国可持续发展目标等关键社会目标有着密切的联系。然而，即使在高收入国家，支持家庭的政策往往也是不够的。新冠肺炎疫情生动地暴露了英国和韩国家庭在社会政策方面的这些弱点。与此同时，这场大流行也突显了社会凝聚力和经济增长如何取决于家庭和家庭。在英国，这包括依赖家庭提供看护和家庭教育，这是对儿童保育和学校供应的限制阻碍了劳动力市场的参与，增加了危机的负面经济影响。同样，在韩国，疫情中断了社会关系和网络，增加了承担大部分护理负担的女性的失业风险。研究将探索两国的社会政策如何支持(或不支持)家庭，并强调研究、政策和实践如何学习每个国家的经验。这项研究的最终目的将是确定政策和实践如何能够更好地支持每个国家的家庭和家庭，这是实现更具包容性的增长和社会凝聚力的垫脚石。虽然“家庭友好型”社会政策通常被视为与育儿、育儿假、灵活就业做法和福利支持有关，但我们将这一点扩大到包括其他形式的新出现的家庭问题，如缺乏社会照顾、儿童福祉、家庭对犯罪转移/中止的支持。我们还包括通过非标准组织传递家庭政策，例如在艺术或体育参与方面，以及使用机器人和人工智能实现护理自动化。为了实现其较长期的目标，该项目将促进建立和发展一个由研究人员、政策制定者和从业人员组成的合作网络，他们对两国的社会政策如何支持家庭/家庭感兴趣。该网络将在首席调查员和联合调查员之间现有合作的基础上，通过四个具体重点发展：(A)社会照顾(B)儿童福祉；(C)防止犯罪；(D)通过技术创新和艺术和文化参与提供家庭支持。将在英国和韩国举办四个研究讲习班(在线)和两个随后的研讨会(面对面)，以发展更深层次的专业合作关系。参加面对面研讨会的人员将参加一个在线讲习班，并将被选为最有能力进行跨国协作以促进网络发展的人员。协作的结果将是以一本学术期刊特刊和编辑过的卷的形式出版两份协作成果。我们还将制作一系列十个政策简报，其中包含不同研究人员在合作中的主要发现(即重点关注英国和韩国)。其中一些成果将由英国和韩国的研究人员共同撰写。它还将提出两项供资建议，以维持参与者之间的网络和合作研究。最后，伙伴关系将通过基础设施(如网站、艺术交流/艺术展览、信息图表或照片共享)得到支持，这些基础设施将通过与国际学术协会接洽，建立英国-韩国社会政策和家庭研究工作组(如东亚社会政策网络或韩国儿童保育和教育研究所)而制度化。这将有助于扩大和维持超出本项目合作伙伴和参与者直接活动范围的合作。

Family friendly social policy has a strong link to the achievement of key social goals, such as those in the UN Sustainable Development Goals, including inclusive growth and social cohesion. However, even in high income countries, policies supporting families are often inadequate. The Covid-19 pandemic graphically exposed these weaknesses in social policy for families in both the UK and South Korea. At the same time, the pandemic also highlighted how both social cohesion and economic growth depend on families and households. In the UK, this included the dependence on families to provide both care and home schooling in 'lockdown', the way in which restrictions on childcare and school provision hindered labour market participation, increasing the negative economic effects of the crisis. Similarly, in South Korea, the pandemic has interrupted social relations and networks increasing the risk of unemployment for women who took on the majority of the caring burden.The research will explore how social policy supports (or not) families in both countries and will highlight how research, policy and practice can learn from experience in each country. Ultimately the aim of the research will be to identify how policy and practice can better support families and households in each country, with this being a stepping-stone to more inclusive growth and social cohesion. While 'family friendly' social policy is often regarded as relating to childcare, parental leave, flexible employment practices and welfare supports, we broaden this to include other forms of emerging family issues such as a lack of social care, children's wellbeing, family support for crime diversion/desistance. We also include the delivery of family policy via non-standard organisations such as in arts or sports participation and the automation of care using robots and artificial intelligence. To achieve its longer-term aims, the project will facilitate the establishment and development of a collaborative network of researchers, policy makers and practitioners interested in how social policy supports families/households in both countries.The network will develop from existing collaborations between the Principal and Co-Investigators through four specific foci: (a) social care (b) children's wellbeing, (c) desistance from crime, (d) family support through technical innovations and artistic and cultural participations. Four Research Workshops (online) and two subsequent Symposia (face-to-face) will take place in the UK and South Korea in order to develop deeper professional collaborative relationships. Those travelling for the in-person Symposia will have participated in an online Workshop and will be selected to have most capacity for cross-country collaboration to further the development of the network.The collaboration will result in the publication of two collaborative outputs in the form of a Special Issue of an academic journal and an edited volume. We will also produce a series of ten policy briefings containing key findings from different researchers in the collaboration (i.e. focussing on the UK and South Korea). Some of the outputs will be co-authored by UK/South Korean researchers together. It will also produce two funding proposals to sustain the network and collaborative research between participants. Finally, the partnership will be supported through an infrastructure (e.g. website, art exchange/art exhibition, infographics or photo sharing) which will be institutionalised through approaching international scholarly associations to establish a UK-South Korea Working Group for research on social policy and families (such as The East Asian Social Policy Network or the Korean Institute for Childcare and Education). This will be useful in broadening and sustaining collaboration beyond the direct activities of the partners and participants in this project.