Tracing an Ethic of Care in the Policy and Practice of the Troubled Families Programme

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Bond-Taylor, Sue
Copyright Year	2016
Description	Drawing upon the Trace method developed by Selma Sevenhuijsen (2004), this paper has traced the discourse constructed in two key Troubled Families Programme (TFP) policy documents through the lens of care ethics, highlighting tensions between ‘care’ and ‘justice’ orientations in the neoliberal family intervention model. It is argued that whilst the family intervention model advocated has the potential to provide families with support underpinned by an ethic of care, the TFP's managerialist tendencies also create challenges to the integration of care ethics within such services. Given that the programme's financial framework generates considerable opportunity for local variation in policy implementation, the ethics of care offer a valuable moral framework by which to evaluate local practice. Moreover, engaging with a distinctly feminist ethic of care renders visible to family support services the inequalities produced through the gendered distribution of ‘caring’ responsibilities, and highlights the need for interventions to address rather than reinforce these inequalities.
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Ending Page	141
Page Count	11
Starting Page	131
ISSN	14747464
e-ISSN	14753073
DOI	10.1017/s1474746416000439
Journal	Social Policy and Society
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	16
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2017-01-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Social Policy and Society Troubled Families Family Interventions
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations