Unequal Conditions of Care and the Implications for Social Policies on Young Carers

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21559976
AutoresChloe Alexander (0000-0001-9000-9663, University of Birmingham, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen38
Número5
Páginas505-518
Fecha de publicación2021-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaChild and Adolescent Social Work Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0738-0151 • E-ISSN: 1573-2797
EditorialSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s10560-021-00781-w
OpenAlexW3195198212
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas48

Young carers are the subject of public policies in the UK, which aim to address their needs as a group experiencing disadvantage relating to their caring role. These policies are implemented in a way that aims to improve their health and their educational and social opportunities, but left unaddressed is a wider context of inequalities. Nevertheless, inequalities are a feature of the terrain upon which social policies for young carers are developed and implemented. Evaluation of the ways that young carers and their families are impacted by public policies demands an understanding of those inequalities. Academic knowledge of how experiences diverge as a result of multiple intersecting inequalities is so far limited. This paper reports from a study that aimed to contribute greater understanding of the interaction between inequalities, young carers, family life and social policies in England. Ethnographic research methods created a record of care, family life and the impact of social policies. Unequal conditions of care are an important feature of the lives of young people and their families with on-going caring responsibilities. Young carers and their families positioned at the intersection of inequalities of ‘race’/ethnicity, class and disability had different and unequal experiences of support. The paper discusses these findings and explores the implications for social policies and social work practice

Disadvantage · Ethnic group · Geography · Inequality · Life chances · Political science · Public policy · Public relations · Social class · Social inequality · Social policy · Sociology · Family Support in Illness · Gender Studies · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Social and Demographic Issues in Germany