TY - JOUR
T1 - Poverty, exclusion and child protection practice
T2 - the contribution of ‘the politics of recognition&respect’
AU - Gupta, Anna
AU - Blumhardt, Hannah
N1 - Dr Anna Gupta is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Royal Holloway, London University. Anna’s research interests includes decision-making in the family courts, child protection and families in poverty, social work with Black and other minority ethnic communities and the application of the Capability Approach to social work practice.
Hannah Blumhardt is an independent researcher based in New Zealand with an academic and professional background in history, international relations and law. In 2014, she worked as part of the Policy, Participation and Training team at ATD Fourth World UK.
ATD Fourth World UK is a human rights-based, anti-poverty organization that tackles inequality and promotes social justice. Working in direct partnership with families and individuals experiencing poverty, the Family Support Programme recognizes and builds upon the strengths of families and works alongside them in overcoming the challenges they face. The Policy, Participation and Training Programme provides a platform for people to have their say on decisions that affect their lives and, by bringing together people experiencing poverty with professionals, academics and policy-makers, strives to raise awareness of poverty, counter prejudice and improve policy and practice.
PY - 2017/2/17
Y1 - 2017/2/17
N2 - The affective dimensions of poverty, including the impact of wider policydiscourses and services that ‘other’ and shame people in poverty, areincreasingly recognized. In response, Lister [(2013). Power, not Pity:Poverty and Human Rights. Ethics and Social Welfare, 7(2), 109–123]advocates for ‘a politics of recognition&respect’ that centralizes thevoices, participation and lived experiences of those who live inpoverty. This paper considers how applying Lister’s theory couldimprove child protection (CP) social work in England, from a humanrights and social justice perspective. The paper draws on findings froman ATD Fourth World participatory research project aimed at updatingthe course content for a pre-existing social worker training module onpoverty awareness. The project brings together families withexperience of poverty and CP interventions, social work practitionersand academics.
AB - The affective dimensions of poverty, including the impact of wider policydiscourses and services that ‘other’ and shame people in poverty, areincreasingly recognized. In response, Lister [(2013). Power, not Pity:Poverty and Human Rights. Ethics and Social Welfare, 7(2), 109–123]advocates for ‘a politics of recognition&respect’ that centralizes thevoices, participation and lived experiences of those who live inpoverty. This paper considers how applying Lister’s theory couldimprove child protection (CP) social work in England, from a humanrights and social justice perspective. The paper draws on findings froman ATD Fourth World participatory research project aimed at updatingthe course content for a pre-existing social worker training module onpoverty awareness. The project brings together families withexperience of poverty and CP interventions, social work practitionersand academics.
KW - Poverty
KW - child protection
KW - participation
KW - recognition;
KW - shame
U2 - 10.1080/13691457.2017.1287669
DO - 10.1080/13691457.2017.1287669
M3 - Article
SN - 1369-1457
VL - 21
SP - 247
EP - 259
JO - European Journal of Social Work
JF - European Journal of Social Work
IS - 2
ER -