The project aims to promote innovative, poverty-aware forms of parents' participation and family inclusion practices in child protection policy and practice.
Project Overview
This is a project funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships programme. The Senior Research Fellow, Dr Yuval Saar-Heiman is undertaking the work supervised by Professor Anna Gupta. The project aims to promote innovative, poverty-aware forms of parents' participation and family inclusion practices in child protection policy and practice.
More specifically, the proposed research project intends to strengthen the connection between three bodies of knowledge—poverty, child protection, and parent participation. The research will build theoretically on two contemporary and original frameworks that link poverty to child protection – the Poverty-Aware Paradigm for Child Protection (PAPCP) and the Social Model for Child Protection (SMCP).
Aims & Duration
The specific objectives of the project are:
- To map, describe, and conceptualize the development and application of parent advocacy programmes in England (WP2). 1a) What are the extent, nature, and profile of parent advocacy initiatives in England? 1b) What are the political, organizational, and personal conditions that led to the establishment of parent advocacy programmes? 1c) What are the political, organizational, and personal challenges and possibilities involved in establishing and developing parent advocacy programmes?
- To explore the experiences and perspectives of all stakeholders who participate in parent advocacy programmes (WP3,4). 2a) How do participants and other stakeholders describe and experience their involvement in the programme? 2b) What do participants and other stakeholders perceive as helpful and unhelpful in the programme? 2c) What challenges and opportunities face participants and other stakeholders in the programme?
- To examine and theorize the relevance of the PAPCP framework to parent advocacy programmes (WP 3,4). 3a) How are power relations and social context manifested in the programme? 3b) What theoretical and ethical assumptions underpin the programme’s practice? 3c) How, if at all, can the PAPCP contribute to the programme at the theoretical level? 4d) How, if at all, can the PAPCP contribute to the programme at the practical level?
- To empirically enrich and further develop the PAPCP’s understanding of the complex relationship between poverty and CAN (WP3,4). 4a) How, if at all, does the socioeconomic background of different participants come into play in the programme? 4b) How do all stakeholders in the programme describe the relationship between poverty and CAN?
The project is expected to be complete in August 2021.
Research Team
- Dr. Yuval Saar-Heiman (Royal Holloway, University of London);
- Prof. Anna Gupta (Royal Holloway, University of London).
Funder
The project is funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships programme.
