The Pupil Premium Plus: The Implementation and Effects of Educational Policy for Children and Young People in Local Authority Care

地方当局看护的儿童和年轻人一直被边缘化和排斥，在从教育结果到心理健康、从危险行为到就业等领域，他们的结果比他们的同龄人更差。2014年，地方政府托儿所的儿童和年轻人中有14%获得了5A*-C普通中等教育证书，而他们的同龄人中这一比例为68%。在随后的学年，联合政府推出了学生保费加(PP+)，这是一种新的学生保费，旨在提高儿童和年轻人在地方当局照顾方面的成就。通过提供人均1900 GB(现在是GB 2300)，政府提议将这笔钱用于满足这些儿童和年轻人的教育需求，由虚拟学校校长教师(地方政府雇员，在政府叙事中被称为“企业家长”)分配给学校。这项研究项目建议通过绘制PP+政策的地图来探索PP+的实施和影响，并探索PP+是否可以解决这一群体的脆弱性；公司父母是否适当地为这些儿童和青少年提供了“见证”；以及该政策可能对他们的“其他”主观地位产生的影响。为此，该项目将利用一些后结构和心理社会理论家，包括：德勒兹和瓜塔里(集合论)、朱迪思·巴特勒(脆弱性)、福柯(权力和主观化)和格尔森(见证)。研究人员将使用紧急人种学方法在该领域进行导航，以便最好地跟踪和追踪PP+从地方当局到儿童或青少年的过程，使用观察、焦点小组、访谈和文件分析。

Children and young people in local authority care are consistently marginalised and excluded, experiencing poorer outcomes than their peers in areas ranging from educational outcomes to mental health and from risky behaviours to employment. In 2014, 14% of children and young people in local authority care achieved 5A*-C GCSEs compared with 68% of their peers. In the subsequent academic year, the coalition government introduced the Pupil Premium Plus (PP+), a new strand of the Pupil Premium, aimed at raising the achievement of children and young people in local authority care. By providing £1900 per capita (now £2300), the government proposed this money be used to meet the educational needs of these children and young people, to be distributed by Virtual School Head Teachers (local authority employees, known within the government narrative as 'corporate parents') and then assigned to the schools. This research project proposes to explore the implementation and effects of the PP+ by 'mapping' the PP+ policy and exploring whether: the PP+ can address the vulnerability of this group; if 'corporate parents' are appropriately 'witnessing' for these children and young people; and the effects the policy might have on their subjective position of 'other'. To do this, the project will draw upon a number of poststructural and psychosocial theorists including: Deleuze and Guattari (assemblage theory), Judith Butler (vulnerability), Foucault (power and subjectivation), and Gerson (witnessing). The researcher will navigate the field using an emergent ethnographic approach in order to best follow and trace the processes of the PP+ from local authority level to the child or young person, using observations, focus groups, interviews, and document analysis.