From Children's Services to Children's Spaces

Moss, Peter; Petrie, Pat

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“…It is possible to see how they may persist as points of potential mobilisation, resistance or 'other voicings' within and alongside managerial discourses of welfare. One alternative is to rethink Children's Services as children's spaces (Moss, 2006) where adults, professionals and children achieve mutual recognition and co-operation. Another would be to involve children and young people in their own protection.…”

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Discourses of Children's Participation: Professionals, Policies and Practices

Pinkney¹

2011

Social Policy & Society

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This article explores the dynamic field of children's participation and provides fresh insight into its construction within professional frameworks as well as within the social policy process. Protectionism, developmentalism, rights and managerialism are identified as significant discourses and this article explores their articulation and negotiation through policies. The argument is that the settlement reached represents a new configuration within policy frameworks relating to children where a version of children's rights is appropriated and mainstreamed. The interaction between children's rights, managerialism and professional discourses are illustrated with reference to policy and legislation.

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Discourses of Children's Participation: Professionals, Policies and Practices

Pinkney¹

2011

Social Policy & Society

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“…This is necessary to reverse the presumption that children are to be expected to fit in with adult ways of participating. In this sense, children are allowed to inhabit 'child friendly spaces' while participating (Moss and Petrie, 2002).…”

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Children's Participation in Social Policy: Inclusion, Chimera or Authenticity?

Cockburn¹

2005

Social Policy & Society

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This paper explores the recent plethora of commitments by government to include children in social policy decision making in the UK. The participation of children is located in the tensions between children perceived as competent and/or incompetent that underlies the ambiguities of children's participation. The paper examines the ways participation, power and empowerment can be used in the context of children. The paper looks at children's civic engagement and suggests that the participation of children is difficult with the ways representative governments operate in a liberal democracy today, but ends with some suggested ways forward.Downloaded

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“…The challenge to policy is manifold. First, to understand how better to serve children, policy must provide a space in which children can live and express their own childhoods (Moss and Petrie, 2002). Responsibility is a meaningful and everyday aspect of many children's lives (Such and Walker, 2004).…”

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Young Citizens or Policy Objects? Children in the ‘Rights and Responsibilities’ Debate

Such¹,

Walker

2004

J. Soc. Pol.

112

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Rights and responsibilities lie at the heart of New Labour's social policies. Children and young people present a challenge to the social contractual model of responsibility evident in policy spheres. Government is torn between the notion that children are dependent on parents for well-being, and the idea that individuals should take responsibility for their own actions. The article examines the problem of childhood in social policy through an examination of the conflicting messages emerging out of family policy and anti-social behaviour policies. Policy discourses are then critically evaluated with reference to a qualitative study of children's ideas about responsibility. The authors suggest that policies relating to children can learn from children's private experience of responsibility in the home, and from the complex and rich ways in which children understand the moral and relational components of responsibility.

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From Children's Services to Children's Spaces

Cited by 51 publications

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Discourses of Children's Participation: Professionals, Policies and Practices

Discourses of Children's Participation: Professionals, Policies and Practices

Children's Participation in Social Policy: Inclusion, Chimera or Authenticity?

Young Citizens or Policy Objects? Children in the ‘Rights and Responsibilities’ Debate

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