Policy transfer,social pedagogy and children's residential care in England |
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Authors: | David Berridge |
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Affiliation: | School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK |
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Abstract: | Much concern has been expressed about the quality of care and poor outcomes for looked‐after children (‘children in care’) in England, especially regarding residential homes. This paper builds on a recent evaluation of the piloting of the continental European model of social pedagogy (SP) in English residential care. It does three things: it considers the theoretical social policy literature on policy transfer and its implications; discusses European residential care for children and the discipline of SP; and reflects on these debates and the situation of children's residential care in England. The paper concludes that there are some major hurdles to a widespread implementation of SP in England. This particularly concerns the differing social, professional and political context of children's residential services across neighbouring countries. |
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Keywords: | child care policy and practice child welfare children in care system looked‐after children residential care social policy |
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