Family Policy and the Governance of Anti-Social Behaviour in the UK: Women's Experiences of Intensive Family Support

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 717-737 ◽  
Author(s):  
SADIE PARR
Keyword(s):  
Family Support ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Family Intervention ◽  
Support Service ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Vulnerable Families ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Family Support Service

AbstractIn seeking to make sense of the role of intensive family support in the governance of anti-social behaviour, this paper focuses analytical attention on one case study project, the Family Support Service. It draws on interview material from five women whose experiences were tracked in repeat interviews over an 18-month period. The Family Support Service entailed intense surveillance and supervision of marginalised populations in domestic private spaces and did, therefore, have controlling and disciplinary qualities, particularly with regard to the families living in ‘core’ residential accommodation. Yet, in spite of this, the Family Support Service also contained a significant social welfare ethos based on finding long-term sustainable solutions to individuals’ problems, not least security of housing and income. This paper argues that while we must confront the worrying and disconcerting aspects of intensive family support, the intervention might be conducive to helping disadvantaged and troubled families access better lives. There is a need for further research, however, about how to achieve less punitive types of family intervention and, therefore, how progressive change for vulnerable families might be generated.

scholarly journals An Investigation using a Case Study Approach into the Impact on a Counselling Team in the UK of an Organisational Restructuring within a Family Support Service

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Family Support ◽  
Support Service ◽  
Transactional Analysis ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Family Support Service

Following an organisational restructuring of a hospice in the UK, the author has used a case study approach to investigate the impact of this on a team of volunteer counsellors of which she was a member.  A small number of the volunteer counsellors completed a questionnaire and some managers and other professionals were interviewed, and summaries of responses through each method are presented.  The results are reviewed in terms of several transactional analysis concepts, and the author concludes by hypothesising that the impact of the restructuring on the counsellors appeared to parallel the sense of vulnerability felt by their clients.

scholarly journals Registration: Ten years on within a non-government organisation

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pam Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Support Service ◽  
Team Leader ◽  
The Social ◽  
Government Organisation ◽  
Family Support Service

The Social Workers Registration Act 2003 has now been part of legislation for 10 years. This remains a voluntary registration and has been embraced by some organisations but not others. Whether social workers wish to become registered has been left to them and their employers to decide, as mandatory registration has not yet been legislated. This article considers the implementation of registration on Family Works Southland, the Child and Family Support Service of Presbyterian Support Southland, a non-government organisation. As a team leader within the agency, I have included my observations along with discussions held with staff and input from the manager and director.

scholarly journals Ecological Issues in the Aging Family: Intervention Implications & the Family Support Cycle

1983 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Kuypers ◽  
Vern L. Bengtson
Keyword(s):  
Family Support ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Family Intervention ◽  
Family Competence ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Breakdown ◽  
Basic Argument

The basic argument in this paper is that the older family, as it faces certain recurrent issues in family life and as it faces unique issues of its own aging, is placed in a highly vulnerable position. The result may be a weakening of the family's competence and an increased likelihood of family breakdown. Special attention is given to the natural changes in family dynamics as the family ages. It is argued that specific interventions aimed at promoting family competence must account for these unique features of older family life.

scholarly journals Austerity in a disadvantaged West Midlands neighbourhood: Everyday experiences of families and family support professionals

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-409
Author(s):  
Demelza Jones ◽  
Pam Lowe ◽  
Karen West
Keyword(s):  
Family Support ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Disadvantaged Communities ◽  
The Family ◽  
West Midlands ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Families With Children ◽  
Family Support Services

This article examines everyday effects of austerity in Kingshurst – a disadvantaged urban neighbourhood in the West Midlands. It draws on qualitative data gathered from local families with children, and public and third sector professionals working in the area in family support services. While some of the issues raised are common to other disadvantaged communities across the UK, we recognise that austerity is experienced in specific socio-spatial contexts: in this case, Kingshurst’s circumstance of deprivation within a local authority borough that (as a whole) is above averagely affluent. This shaped the ways that residents and professionals framed the disadvantage they encountered in their everyday lives and work, in particular strengthening understandings of austerity as unfairly and unevenly experienced on the bases of geography and social class, and highlighting territorial stigma towards the neighbourhood by professionals and decision-makers which impeded residents’ engagement with the family support services available to them locally.

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