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‘Think Family’ : Reflections for the ESRC seminar series

‘Think Family’ : Reflections for the ESRC seminar series. Professor Kate Morris University of Nottingham. Since the ‘Think Family’ review …. Evaluations of LA and Third Sector programmes concerned with services to families (www.improvingfutures.org)

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‘Think Family’ : Reflections for the ESRC seminar series

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  1. ‘Think Family’ : Reflections for the ESRC seminar series Professor Kate Morris University of Nottingham

  2. Since the ‘Think Family’ review….. • Evaluations of LA and Third Sector programmes concerned with services to families (www.improvingfutures.org) • Work with ‘Your Family Your Voice’ Alliance and Lankelly Chase (www.frg.org.uk) • A study of family experiences of SCRs (www.baspcan.org.uk) • BA funded study of social workers applied understanding of ‘family’ • Nuffield funded study of Child Welfare Inequalities (www.nuffieldfoundation.org/inequalities-child-welfare-intervention-rates) • ‘Re Imagining Child Protection’ Featherstone, White and Morris (www.policypress.co.uk)

  3. Family experiences • The social and economic context for practices and services (child welfare inequalities, demographics, social care and austerity) • The changing settlement between the family and the state (help vs. wrong choices) • Temporal concerns have become increasingly evident and are drivers of interventions in childrens services, evident also in adult • Family experiences have a rich set of suggestions for how we might work together better • Family narratives describe the value of demonstrated care, respectful practice, practical help and avoidance of fresh starts, the limits of targeted interventions

  4. Theorising Family • Across the studies household is the working boundary of practitioner notions of family • Family understood in the context of risk, resourcefulness and (dsy)functionality (Murray and Barnes analysis still holds value) • A professional hierarchy of relationships remains strong, mother / child dyad dominant, grandparents as kin carers and fathers still often absent • Instrumental view evident, for example grandparents recognised for the help they may offer • Family practices and family care practices in adversity still under researched and therefore little understood • Relational nature of family life is poorly represented and respected, so critical relationships are missed, broken or responded to by function (see our earlier 2009 work on categories)

  5. Service design • Family rarely means family – a decade on we still see ‘family’ covering a multitude of services and targeted groups • Still limited evidence of family minded services capable of working with needs across the life course – is this an impossible aspiration? • The demise of informal open ended help – ‘too little too long, too much too late’ (D. Conway) • With increased specialism comes increased fragmentation, the old adage that family problems won’t fit professional silos remains critical in planning • Strength based models are difficult in risk saturated services • Location, location, location

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