Caring Communities 1800-present: Rethinking Children's Social Care

关爱社区 1800 年至今：重新思考儿童的社会关怀

• 批准号: MR/X034968/1
• 负责人: Claudia Soares
• 金额: $ 233.97万
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FX034968%2F1
• 关键词: Caring; Communities; 1800; present; Rethinking

Children's social care has long been in crisis with reports of abuse, growing numbers of children entering care, declining numbers of carers and diminishing quality of care. The 2022 inquiry into children's social care in England and Wales called for a radically different mindset alongside significant investment to 'reset' the care system and ensure it effectively meets children's needs. The state of care in the present day has in part resulted from an enduring lack of attention to and understanding of child and family perspectives about welfare needs and experiences from the long view. Meaningful transformations to current care systems cannot happen without a deep understanding of the complex contexts in which children's care has developed over modern history, and a comprehensive knowledge of how children in both the past and present have felt about their diverse experiences of care. Caring Communities offers a critical and timely intervention into what will be a radical programme of transformation for the children's social care system over the next decade. This project provides the first major cultural and affective study of children's care between 1800-present that will help shift this mindset to imagine new and radical possibilities for children's social care in the future. It develops an innovative, interdisciplinary framework that combines historical research with creative and participatory approaches to privilege the subjectivities, voices, and views of Care-Experienced people and to elucidate new understandings about care practices and experiences across time. Crucially, the research sheds important light on the complex interplay of emotions, care, and politics and explores how these have shaped care practices in the past and present. The project draws attention to the multiple ways in which current understandings, policies, and practices are the result of long-term processes of cultural, political, and social change and thus embedded in the past. It adopts a historical vantage point while collaborating creatively with partners including major UK care agencies (Coram, The Children's Society, Who Cares? Scotland) and Care-Experienced groups to emphasise the relevance and significance of historical forms of care to current policy and practice, offering a unique opportunity to generate new thinking about the value, meaning and impact of distinct care practices. Taking a historical perspective that is attentive to current policy and practice means that the project offers significant and meaningful ways of approaching the study of children's care for the benefit of policymakers, practitioners, carers, and care agencies. The Future Leaders Fellowship (FLF) will fundamentally change the way we think about social care: this research uses historical evidence and collaborates with care professionals and recipients to confront ideas about what care is, what it does, its value, and crucially, what it could be. In addition, it fosters innovative creative and participatory techniques to develop insights that will shape debates about the future of care that cannot be derived from conventional historical methods alone. Embedding collaboration and co-production from the start, the project offers Care-Experienced groups a platform to make a significant contribution to ground-breaking research and the opportunity to demonstrate that the history of children in care is really the story of all children's care. In creating a better understanding about the world of children's care over time, the FLF will generate an emotionally- and historically-informed framework for developing compassionate and effective practices for the future.

长期以来，儿童社会照料一直处于危机之中，因为有报告称儿童受到虐待，越来越多的儿童进入照料中心，照顾者的数量不断减少，照料质量不断下降。2022年对英格兰和威尔士儿童社会照料的调查呼吁人们树立一种截然不同的思维方式，同时进行大量投资，重新设置照料系统，确保其有效地满足儿童的需求。目前的照料状况部分是由于长期缺乏对儿童和家庭对福利需要和经验的关注和理解。如果不深入了解儿童护理在现代历史上发展的复杂背景，并全面了解过去和现在的儿童对其不同的护理经历的感受，就不可能对目前的护理制度进行有意义的转变。关爱社区为未来十年儿童社会照料系统的根本性变革方案提供了关键和及时的干预。这个项目提供了第一个关于1800年至今儿童护理的重大文化和情感研究，将有助于改变这种心态，想象未来儿童社会护理的新的和激进的可能性。它开发了一个创新的跨学科框架，将历史研究与创造性和参与性方法相结合，赋予有护理经验的人的主观性、声音和观点以特权，并阐明对护理实践和经历的新理解。至关重要的是，这项研究揭示了情感、关怀和政治之间复杂的相互作用，并探索了这些因素如何塑造了过去和现在的护理实践。该项目提请人们注意，当前的理解、政策和做法是文化、政治和社会变革长期进程的结果，并因此植根于过去的多种方式。它采用了一个历史的有利位置，同时与包括英国主要护理机构(Coram、儿童协会、谁关心？)在内的合作伙伴进行创造性的合作。苏格兰)和有护理经验的团体强调历史形式的护理对当前政策和实践的相关性和重要性，提供了一个独特的机会来产生关于不同护理实践的价值、意义和影响的新思维。关注当前政策和实践的历史视角意味着，该项目为政策制定者、从业者、照顾者和护理机构提供了重要和有意义的方法来研究儿童护理。未来领袖联谊会(FLF)将从根本上改变我们思考社会关怀的方式：这项研究使用历史证据，并与关怀专业人士和受助者合作，面对关于关怀是什么、它做了什么、它的价值，以及最重要的是它可能是什么的想法。此外，它还促进创新、创造性和参与性的技术，以发展洞察力，形成关于护理未来的辩论，而这些辩论不能仅从传统的历史方法中获得。该项目从一开始就嵌入了合作和联合制作，为有护理经验的团体提供了一个平台，为突破性的研究做出重大贡献，并有机会证明托儿所儿童的历史实际上是所有儿童托儿所的故事。随着时间的推移，通过更好地了解儿童保育的世界，儿童基金会将产生一个从情感和历史上了解情况的框架，以便为未来制定富有同情心和有效的做法。