Ball, E., Batty, E. and Flint, J. orcid.org/0000-0001-6272-9575 (2016) Intensive Family Intervention and the Problem Figuration of ‘Troubled Families’. Social Policy and Society, 15 (02). pp. 263-274. ISSN 1474-7464
Abstract
This article examines how intensive family interventions in England since 1997, including the Coalition government's Troubled Families programme, are situated in a contemporary problem figuration of ‘anti-social’ or ‘troubled’ families that frames and justifies the utilisation of different models of intensive family intervention. The article explores how techniques of classification and estimation, combined with the controversial use of ‘research’ evidence in policy making, are situated within a ‘rational fiction’ that constructs ‘anti-social’ families in particular ways. The article illustrates how this problem figuration has evolved during the New Labour and Coalition administrations in England, identifying their similarities and differences. It then presents findings from a study of intensive family intervention strategies and mechanisms in a large English city to illustrate how this national level discourse and policy framework relates to developing localised practice, and the tensions and ambiguities that arise.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 Cambridge University Press. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Anti-social behaviour; intensive family intervention; local practice; problem figuration; troubled families |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Urban Studies & Planning (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ES/K002163/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 30 Mar 2016 13:54 |
Last Modified: | 30 Apr 2020 10:37 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1474746415000469 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S1474746415000469 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:97032 |