Watching over or Working with? Understanding Social Work Innovation in Response to Extra-Familial Harm

This paper critically reflects on the role of surveillance and trusted relationships in social work in England and Wales. It explores the characteristics of relationships of trust and relationships of surveillance and asks how these approaches apply to emerging policy and practices responses to extr...

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Published in:Social sciences (Basel) 2020-04, Vol.9 (4), p.37
Main Authors: Wroe, Lauren Elizabeth, Lloyd, Jenny
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
care
child protection
contextual safeguarding
control
extra-familial harm
surveillance
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Summary:This paper critically reflects on the role of surveillance and trusted relationships in social work in England and Wales. It explores the characteristics of relationships of trust and relationships of surveillance and asks how these approaches apply to emerging policy and practices responses to extra-familial forms of harm (EFH). Five bodies of research that explore safeguarding responses across a range of public bodies are drawn on to present an analytical framework that explores elements of safeguarding responses, constituting relationships of trust or relationships of surveillance and control. This analytic framework is applied to two case studies, each of which detail a recent practice innovation in response to EFH studied by the authors, as part of a larger body of work under the Contextual Safeguarding programme. The application of this framework signals a number of critical issues related to the focus/rationale, methods and impact of interventions into EFH that should be considered in future work to address EFH, to ensure young people’s rights to privacy and participation are upheld.
ISSN:2076-0760
2076-0760
DOI:10.3390/socsci9040037