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Policy transfer, social pedagogy and children's residential care in England
Author(s) -
Berridge David
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
child and family social work
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1365-2206
pISSN - 1356-7500
DOI - 10.1111/cfs.12112
Subject(s) - residential care , context (archaeology) , social care , politics , quality (philosophy) , social work , sociology , psychology , political science , public relations , nursing , medicine , economic growth , geography , economics , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology , law
Much concern has been expressed about the quality of care and poor outcomes for looked‐after children (‘children in care’) in E ngland, especially regarding residential homes. This paper builds on a recent evaluation of the piloting of the continental E uropean model of social pedagogy ( SP ) in E nglish residential care. It does three things: it considers the theoretical social policy literature on policy transfer and its implications; discusses E uropean residential care for children and the discipline of SP ; and reflects on these debates and the situation of children's residential care in E ngland. The paper concludes that there are some major hurdles to a widespread implementation of SP in E ngland. This particularly concerns the differing social, professional and political context of children's residential services across neighbouring countries.