Family Intervention Projects: A Site of Social Work Practice

Parr, Sadie

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“…Parr and Nixon (2008) highlight how, under New Labour, FIPs were identified as 'pioneering projects' and as an innovative response to the inability of traditional family services to 'get to grips' with anti-social or 'problem' families. They have also been described as 'sites of social work practice' (Parr, 2009) where it is possible for workers to exercise professional discretion and 'engage in the kind of creative practice that proceduralization, bureaucracy and managerialism have made impossible to achieve in mainstream social work arenas' (Parr, 2009(Parr, : 1257. The outcomes driven PbR model of the TFP, and the requirement to see specific and rapid behaviour change relating to the household, potentially afford little room for such opportunities.…”

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From the desk to the front-room? The changing spaces of street-level encounters with the state under austerity

Crossley¹

2016

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The impact of recent welfare reforms and austerity measures have fallen unevenly on different regions and different household types in the UK. These changes are generally referred to as a 'withdrawal' or 'retrenchment' of the state. It is also possible, however, to argue that the state is actually extending its reach into the lives of disadvantaged or 'troubled' families. This article highlights how, in recent years, the site of government interventions into the lives of marginalised populations has progressively shifted from the public spaces of offices, and neighbourhood and community buildings, to the private, domestic spaces of the 'family'. The changing spaces of street-level encounters with the state are characterised as a shift from 'the desk' or 'the counter' to the 'front door' of the family home. The rhetoric surrounding the Troubled Families Programme is examined and some of the political and symbolic functions of the 'front-door' discourse are expounded.

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From the desk to the front-room? The changing spaces of street-level encounters with the state under austerity

Crossley¹

2016

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“…It has been argued that there is a contemporary reorientation of household space extending into private domains 'hitherto out of reach' and a renewed emphasis on the domestic sphere as a site for governmental intervention (Parr, 2008;Skeggs & Wood, 2009). It is further suggested that intensifying disciplinary power blurs the boundaries between the public and private realms (McNay, 2009, p. 64).…”

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“…Many criticisms of panoptic paradigms and governmentality have previously been made, with a call for more nuanced analysis of the 'messy realities' of governance and how governors and the governed think, act and negotiate in specific, contingent and local situations (Atkinson & Kintrea, 2004;Franklin, 2000;Frauley, 2007;Hamm, 2009;Holt, 2009;McKee, 2009McKee, , 2011Parr, 2008Parr, , 2009Schneider, 2009). Carr (2009, p. 84) states that the role of the women who are employed by family intervention projects and their compliance and resistance to government rhetoric are of interest.…”

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“…Carr (2009, p. 84) states that the role of the women who are employed by family intervention projects and their compliance and resistance to government rhetoric are of interest. Indeed such analysis of the roles, practices and resistance mechanisms of project workers has already been undertaken (Parr, 2008(Parr, , 2009Parr & Nixon, 2009). The paper now turns to empirically investigating these issues.…”

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The Inspection House and Neglected Dynamics of Governance: The Case of Domestic Visits in Family Intervention Projects

Flint

2012

Housing Studies

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There has been an expansion in the provision of family intervention projects in Britain. These projects, in which housing providers are centrally implicated, aim to provide a form of coercive support to households subject to, or at risk of, legal sanctions. In both core accommodation and outreach models of these projects, the dwelling is a key site, and the inspection of domesticity a primary technique, of governance. This article argues that policy narratives and some academic critiques of these projects are heavily influenced by understandings of governmentality as a disciplinary power based upon Bentham's and Foucault's works on the panopticon. The article uses indicative findings from recent research to illustrate that such conceptualisations neglect the centrality of the social worlds, social class and habitus that embed non-clinical sites and modes of governance and influence the interactions between project workers and individuals subject to project interventions.

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“…Despite ostensibly favourable evidence regarding their efficacy , it has been argued that the apparent benign-welfarism of family-based ASB interventions (e.g. FIPs referred to above), hides a growing punitive authoritarianism and represents a criminalization of social policy (Parr, 2008). In the remainder of this section I attempt to explain the genesis of one such project located in a large city in the north of England.…”

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Confronting the reality of anti-social behaviour

Parr

2009

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A significant body of thinking around the UK Government's antisocial behaviour (ASB) policy agenda draws its inspiration from postFoucauldian governmentality theory. This is an indispensable body of work that has been particularly productive when grounded in empirical research studies which have critically analysed the way governmental rationalities are translated into policy 'on the ground'. This article argues, however, that there is a need to move beyond 'the social construction of reality' thesis prevalent in this approach and direct our attention to ontologically focused questions. It contends that critical realism could effectively complement governmentality perspectives and deepen our understanding of ASB policy by enabling researchers to move beyond a focus on the 'construction' of ASB to the 'reality' of ASB.

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Family Intervention Projects: A Site of Social Work Practice

Cited by 38 publications

References 21 publications

From the desk to the front-room? The changing spaces of street-level encounters with the state under austerity

From the desk to the front-room? The changing spaces of street-level encounters with the state under austerity

The Inspection House and Neglected Dynamics of Governance: The Case of Domestic Visits in Family Intervention Projects

Confronting the reality of anti-social behaviour

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