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密切相关。然而，即使在高收入国家，支持家庭的政策也往往不足。Covid-19大流行生动地暴露了英国和韩国在家庭社会政策方面的这些弱点。与此同时，大流行也凸显了社会凝聚力和经济增长如何依赖于家庭和家庭。在英国，这包括依赖家庭在“封锁”中提供照顾和家庭教育，对儿童保育和学校提供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，大流行病中断了社会关系和网络，增加了承担大部分照顾负担的妇女失业的风险。该研究将探讨两国的社会政策如何支持（或不支持）家庭，并将强调如何从两国的经验中学习研究、政策和实践。研究的最终目的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，从而成为实现更具包容性增长和社会凝聚力的基石。虽然“家庭友好型”社会政策通常被认为与儿童保育、育儿假、灵活就业做法和福利支持有关，但我们将其扩大到包括其他形式的新出现的家庭问题，如缺乏社会关怀、儿童福利、家庭对犯罪转移/制止的支持。我们还包括通过非标准组织（如艺术或体育参与）提供家庭政策，以及使用机器人和人工智能实现护理自动化。为了实现其长期目标，该项目将促进建立和发展一个由对社会政策如何支持两国家庭感兴趣的研究人员、决策者和实践者组成的合作网络。该网络将从校长和联合调查员之间现有的合作中发展，通过四个具体重点：(a)社会关怀(b)儿童福祉，(c)制止犯罪，(d)通过技术创新和艺术和文化参与提供家庭支持。四个研究研讨会（在线）和两个后续专题讨论会（面对面）将在英国和韩国举行，以发展更深层次的专业合作关系。参加面对面专题讨论会的人员将参加在线讲习班，并将被挑选为最有能力进行跨国合作以进一步发展网络的人员。这种合作将导致以学术期刊特刊和编辑卷的形式出版两种合作产出。我们还将制作一系列十份政策简报，其中包含合作中不同研究人员的主要发现（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。它还将提出两项资助提案，以维持网络和参与者之间的合作研究。最后，合作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，并将通过与国际学术协会建立一个英韩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）来制度化。这将有助于在本项目的伙伴和参与者的直接活动之外扩大和维持合作。

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.