June Statham
Biographic Data
| ID | 182342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | June Statham |
| GIVEN NAMES | June |
| FAMILY NAME | Statham |
| SIGNATURE | STATHAM J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
What Kind of Trouble? Meeting the Health Needs of ‘Troubled Families’ through Intensive Family Support
The policy rhetoric of the UK Coalition government's ‘Troubled Families’ initiative, and that of New Labour's earlier Respect Agenda, share an emphasis on families’ responsibilities, or rather their irresponsibility, and their financial costs to society. Giving children a chance of a better life coincides, in this framing, with reducing costs for the taxpayer. The research reported here was based on a national study of Family Intervention Project…
Beyond Contact? Policy approaches to work with families of looked after children in four European countries
In E ngland, placement within the looked after system is not viewed as a desirable long‐term solution for most children, and policy has prioritised continued contact with parents, and swift return home, wherever possible. This review examines policy approaches to work with families of looked after children in England and in three other E uropean countries: D enmark, F rance and the N etherlands, aiming to identify areas for shared learning in rel…
L’implication des parents dans l’éducation de leur enfant placé. Approches européennes
En protection de l’enfance, comme dans d’autres dispositifs éducatifs, le principe d’une implication des parents tend à s’imposer dans le discours officiel. Dans la pratique, cependant, le placement d’un enfant en institution ou en famille entraîne un éloignement et une disqualification des parents. À partir d’une recherche menée dans quatre pays européens, cet article tente de cerner ce que recouvre la notion d’implication et comment les parents…
Care, gender and employment
Over the last 30 years, the authors have collaborated with Julia Brannen on five major research studies: the Day Care Project in the 1980s; the study of Four Generation Families at the turn of the millennium; the Care Careers Project in the mid 2000s; and, most recently, Fathers across Three Generations and the Food Practices and Employed Families with Younger Children studies. This article offers an overview of the studies, situating them in the…
Understandings of efficacy
The research literature on parenting support typically focuses on English-speaking countries, such as England, the United States and Australia. This article draws on a review, commissioned by the English government, which examined policies and services to support parenting in five European countries: Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, and considered the evidence for effectiveness. In exploring differences between the five countr…
Numbers of children looked after in England
This paper is an analysis of the relationship between policy, practice and the rates of children looked after by local authorities in England. It examines the trends in the numbers of children looked after by local authorities in England over a period of approximately 40 years. The increase in children looked after in the decade after 1994 is shown to be the result of fewer children entering care, but those that do tend to stay longer. This two‐p…
Childhood Experiences
This article draws upon biographical interview material from a mixed-method British study of workers caring for vulnerable children: residential social workers, family support workers, foster carers and community childminders. It has two aims: (1) to identify the contexts - the particular events, circumstances and life course phases - that precipitated a move into their first occupation working with vulnerable children and young people; and (2) t…
Mobility within the Childcare Workforce
This article presents findings from a three-year government-funded study of the work and family lives of four important groups within the childcare workforce in England: residential social workers in children's homes, family support workers, foster carers and community childminders. The study used a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, including biographical narrative interviews. The policy context of the Children's Workforce Stra…
Coming to Care
This book provides fascinating insights into the factors that influence why people enter and leave care work, their motivations, understandings and experiences of their work and intersection of it with their family lives
Variations in duty arrangements to respond to concerns about children's welfare
Reception and initial contact arrangements and practices in social services play a key role in safeguarding children and providing an avenue for the public and professionals to report concerns about a child's welfare. This paper reports on findings from a small-scale study, commissioned in the wake of the Laming Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Victoria Climbié. The aim of the study was an exploration of the arrangements lo…
Listening to Young Children
Most existing literature on children's participation has focused on their involvement in service planning, delivery and evaluation rather than on children's views of their own world, starting from their interests and concerns. Few studies have considered the views and experiences of young children (under five years old). One of the barriers to this work has been uncertainty about ‘how to listen’ to children at this age. Alison Clark and June Stat…
Part-Time Fostering
Although most local authorities provide or commission home-based short-break services to support families with a disabled child, such schemes have been much slower to develop as a form of support for families where children are in need for reasons other than disability. June Statham and Margaret Greenfields draw on a study of barriers to the development of ‘support care’ schemes in England, focusing in particular on the motivation and experiences…
Families on the brink
This paper presents findings from a study of the costs and effectiveness of family support services offered to 40 families with a high level of need, in two neighbouring local authorities in North Wales. It describes the level and type of services offered by different agencies in each of the authorities, estimates the costs of these services, and assesses outcomes for the families receiving them after three months. Information is also provided ab…
Family Day Care
Preface. 1. Across the Spectrum: An Introduction to Family Day Care Internationally. June Statham and Ann Mooney, Thomas Coram Research Unit, London. Part 1. Policy and Organisation. 1. Across the Spectrum: An Introduction to Family Day Care Internationally. June Statham and Ann Mooney, Thomas Coram Research Unit, London. 2. Home-like? Some Unique features of the Emerging Family Day Care Provision in Hungary. Marta Korintus, National Institute fo…
From legislation to practice
The Role of the Private Market in Day‐care Provision for Children in Need
This article examines the role that the private day‐care market plays within the range of day‐care services offered by 12 local authorities for children in need. It examines how local authorities have developed their use of private day‐care services generally, and goes on to discuss three models of sponsored childminding practice which were identified in the study. Although authorities have generally been innovative in developing their work with …
Sponsored day care in a changing world
Sponsored day care is the term generally used to describe the purchase of places by local authorities in independent day care services (such as childminders, nurseries and playgroups) for children in need. This paper considers the development and operation of sponsored day care services in 12 English local authorities, in the context of current policy developments within early childhood services. It suggests that provision for children in need is…
Sponsored day care in a changing world
Sponsored day care is the term generally used to describe the purchase of places by local authorities in independent day care services (such as childminders, nurseries and playgroups) for children in need. This paper considers the development and operation of sponsored day care services in 12 English local authorities, in the context of current policy developments within early childhood services. It suggests that provision for children in need is…
The ‘child in need’ and ‘the rich child’
Drawing on two principal theoretical perspectives—social constructionism and Foucault's ideas about power—and data from a study of sponsored day care for children in need, the article problematizes the concept of ‘the child in need’—which plays a major part in current discourse, policy and practice in British social work—and explores how the concept is both produced from dominant discourses about childhood, and is in turn productive of a particul…
Informing ourselves about early childhood services
Using a range of examples, the paper argues that there is an information deficit concerning early childhood services; even on the most basic issues, there is either no information or such information as does exists is unreliable, limited or outdated. This matters because information is a necessary condition for good policy, for open and democratic decision making and for giving visibility to young children. The article concludes by considering ho…
Informing ourselves about early childhood services
Using a range of examples, the paper argues that there is an information deficit concerning early childhood services; even on the most basic issues, there is either no information or such information as does exists is unreliable, limited or outdated. This matters because information is a necessary condition for good policy, for open and democratic decision making and for giving visibility to young children. The article concludes by considering ho…
Informing ourselves about early childhood services
Sponsored Places
The implementation of the Children Act 1989, with its emphasis on family support through the provision of non-stigmatizing local services and on local authorities working in partnership with voluntary and private service providers, has given a new focus to the use of independent day-care services to support children in need and their families. This article uses data from research in England and Wales on the implementation of the Children Act as i…
Young Children in Rural Areas
This article is based on the results of the first stage of a study of the Children Act (day care and preschool education), and looks at how the Children Act 1989 has been put into practice with respect to services for children under eight, in rural local authorities in England and Wales. It considers the duties given by the Act to local authorities from a rural perspective, including providing a range of services for children in need, reviewing t…
Parental Involvement in Playgroups
This paper reports results from a study of playgroups in three areas of England. It describes the extent and nature of parent involvement in the study playgroups, and how far this involvement included fathers as well as mothers; examines the relationship between involvement and various socio‐economic characteristics of the parents, to see whether certain groups were more or less likely to be involved in their children's playgroups; and considers …
Listening to Young Children
Most existing literature on children's participation has focused on their involvement in service planning, delivery and evaluation rather than on children's views of their own world, starting from their interests and concerns. Few studies have considered the views and experiences of young children (under five years old). One of the barriers to this work has been uncertainty about ‘how to listen’ to children at this age. Alison Clark and June Stat…
The ‘child in need’ and ‘the rich child’
Drawing on two principal theoretical perspectives—social constructionism and Foucault's ideas about power—and data from a study of sponsored day care for children in need, the article problematizes the concept of ‘the child in need’—which plays a major part in current discourse, policy and practice in British social work—and explores how the concept is both produced from dominant discourses about childhood, and is in turn productive of a particul…
What Kind of Trouble? Meeting the Health Needs of ‘Troubled Families’ through Intensive Family Support
The policy rhetoric of the UK Coalition government's ‘Troubled Families’ initiative, and that of New Labour's earlier Respect Agenda, share an emphasis on families’ responsibilities, or rather their irresponsibility, and their financial costs to society. Giving children a chance of a better life coincides, in this framing, with reducing costs for the taxpayer. The research reported here was based on a national study of Family Intervention Project…
Families on the brink
This paper presents findings from a study of the costs and effectiveness of family support services offered to 40 families with a high level of need, in two neighbouring local authorities in North Wales. It describes the level and type of services offered by different agencies in each of the authorities, estimates the costs of these services, and assesses outcomes for the families receiving them after three months. Information is also provided ab…
Numbers of children looked after in England
This paper is an analysis of the relationship between policy, practice and the rates of children looked after by local authorities in England. It examines the trends in the numbers of children looked after by local authorities in England over a period of approximately 40 years. The increase in children looked after in the decade after 1994 is shown to be the result of fewer children entering care, but those that do tend to stay longer. This two‐p…
Mobility within the Childcare Workforce
This article presents findings from a three-year government-funded study of the work and family lives of four important groups within the childcare workforce in England: residential social workers in children's homes, family support workers, foster carers and community childminders. The study used a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, including biographical narrative interviews. The policy context of the Children's Workforce Stra…
Poor relations in the preschool family
Playgroups provide for more children under five than any other preschool service, and now regard themselves as an alternative to, rather than a substitute for, nursery education. Based on research in 45 playgroups in three areas (rural, inner city, and suburban), the paper looks in more detail at the consequences for playgroups of their current funding position and, more specifically, at the impact on various aspects of playgroups ‐ including pre…
Childhood Experiences
This article draws upon biographical interview material from a mixed-method British study of workers caring for vulnerable children: residential social workers, family support workers, foster carers and community childminders. It has two aims: (1) to identify the contexts - the particular events, circumstances and life course phases - that precipitated a move into their first occupation working with vulnerable children and young people; and (2) t…
Sponsored Places
The implementation of the Children Act 1989, with its emphasis on family support through the provision of non-stigmatizing local services and on local authorities working in partnership with voluntary and private service providers, has given a new focus to the use of independent day-care services to support children in need and their families. This article uses data from research in England and Wales on the implementation of the Children Act as i…
Parental Involvement in Playgroups
This paper reports results from a study of playgroups in three areas of England. It describes the extent and nature of parent involvement in the study playgroups, and how far this involvement included fathers as well as mothers; examines the relationship between involvement and various socio‐economic characteristics of the parents, to see whether certain groups were more or less likely to be involved in their children's playgroups; and considers …
Poor relations in the preschool family
Playgroups provide for more children under five than any other preschool service, and now regard themselves as an alternative to, rather than a substitute for, nursery education. Based on research in 45 playgroups in three areas (rural, inner city, and suburban), the paper looks in more detail at the consequences for playgroups of their current funding position and, more specifically, at the impact on various aspects of playgroups ‐ including pre…
Young Children in Rural Areas
This article is based on the results of the first stage of a study of the Children Act (day care and preschool education), and looks at how the Children Act 1989 has been put into practice with respect to services for children under eight, in rural local authorities in England and Wales. It considers the duties given by the Act to local authorities from a rural perspective, including providing a range of services for children in need, reviewing t…
Sponsored Places
The implementation of the Children Act 1989, with its emphasis on family support through the provision of non-stigmatizing local services and on local authorities working in partnership with voluntary and private service providers, has given a new focus to the use of independent day-care services to support children in need and their families. This article uses data from research in England and Wales on the implementation of the Children Act as i…
Informing ourselves about early childhood services
Using a range of examples, the paper argues that there is an information deficit concerning early childhood services; even on the most basic issues, there is either no information or such information as does exists is unreliable, limited or outdated. This matters because information is a necessary condition for good policy, for open and democratic decision making and for giving visibility to young children. The article concludes by considering ho…
Informing ourselves about early childhood services
Using a range of examples, the paper argues that there is an information deficit concerning early childhood services; even on the most basic issues, there is either no information or such information as does exists is unreliable, limited or outdated. This matters because information is a necessary condition for good policy, for open and democratic decision making and for giving visibility to young children. The article concludes by considering ho…
Informing ourselves about early childhood services
Sponsored day care in a changing world
Sponsored day care is the term generally used to describe the purchase of places by local authorities in independent day care services (such as childminders, nurseries and playgroups) for children in need. This paper considers the development and operation of sponsored day care services in 12 English local authorities, in the context of current policy developments within early childhood services. It suggests that provision for children in need is…
Sponsored day care in a changing world
Sponsored day care is the term generally used to describe the purchase of places by local authorities in independent day care services (such as childminders, nurseries and playgroups) for children in need. This paper considers the development and operation of sponsored day care services in 12 English local authorities, in the context of current policy developments within early childhood services. It suggests that provision for children in need is…
The ‘child in need’ and ‘the rich child’
Drawing on two principal theoretical perspectives—social constructionism and Foucault's ideas about power—and data from a study of sponsored day care for children in need, the article problematizes the concept of ‘the child in need’—which plays a major part in current discourse, policy and practice in British social work—and explores how the concept is both produced from dominant discourses about childhood, and is in turn productive of a particul…
The Role of the Private Market in Day‐care Provision for Children in Need
This article examines the role that the private day‐care market plays within the range of day‐care services offered by 12 local authorities for children in need. It examines how local authorities have developed their use of private day‐care services generally, and goes on to discuss three models of sponsored childminding practice which were identified in the study. Although authorities have generally been innovative in developing their work with …
Family Day Care
Preface. 1. Across the Spectrum: An Introduction to Family Day Care Internationally. June Statham and Ann Mooney, Thomas Coram Research Unit, London. Part 1. Policy and Organisation. 1. Across the Spectrum: An Introduction to Family Day Care Internationally. June Statham and Ann Mooney, Thomas Coram Research Unit, London. 2. Home-like? Some Unique features of the Emerging Family Day Care Provision in Hungary. Marta Korintus, National Institute fo…
From legislation to practice
Families on the brink
This paper presents findings from a study of the costs and effectiveness of family support services offered to 40 families with a high level of need, in two neighbouring local authorities in North Wales. It describes the level and type of services offered by different agencies in each of the authorities, estimates the costs of these services, and assesses outcomes for the families receiving them after three months. Information is also provided ab…
Listening to Young Children
Most existing literature on children's participation has focused on their involvement in service planning, delivery and evaluation rather than on children's views of their own world, starting from their interests and concerns. Few studies have considered the views and experiences of young children (under five years old). One of the barriers to this work has been uncertainty about ‘how to listen’ to children at this age. Alison Clark and June Stat…
Part-Time Fostering
Although most local authorities provide or commission home-based short-break services to support families with a disabled child, such schemes have been much slower to develop as a form of support for families where children are in need for reasons other than disability. June Statham and Margaret Greenfields draw on a study of barriers to the development of ‘support care’ schemes in England, focusing in particular on the motivation and experiences…
Variations in duty arrangements to respond to concerns about children's welfare
Reception and initial contact arrangements and practices in social services play a key role in safeguarding children and providing an avenue for the public and professionals to report concerns about a child's welfare. This paper reports on findings from a small-scale study, commissioned in the wake of the Laming Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Victoria Climbié. The aim of the study was an exploration of the arrangements lo…
Coming to Care
This book provides fascinating insights into the factors that influence why people enter and leave care work, their motivations, understandings and experiences of their work and intersection of it with their family lives
Mobility within the Childcare Workforce
This article presents findings from a three-year government-funded study of the work and family lives of four important groups within the childcare workforce in England: residential social workers in children's homes, family support workers, foster carers and community childminders. The study used a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, including biographical narrative interviews. The policy context of the Children's Workforce Stra…
Numbers of children looked after in England
This paper is an analysis of the relationship between policy, practice and the rates of children looked after by local authorities in England. It examines the trends in the numbers of children looked after by local authorities in England over a period of approximately 40 years. The increase in children looked after in the decade after 1994 is shown to be the result of fewer children entering care, but those that do tend to stay longer. This two‐p…
Childhood Experiences
This article draws upon biographical interview material from a mixed-method British study of workers caring for vulnerable children: residential social workers, family support workers, foster carers and community childminders. It has two aims: (1) to identify the contexts - the particular events, circumstances and life course phases - that precipitated a move into their first occupation working with vulnerable children and young people; and (2) t…
Understandings of efficacy
The research literature on parenting support typically focuses on English-speaking countries, such as England, the United States and Australia. This article draws on a review, commissioned by the English government, which examined policies and services to support parenting in five European countries: Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, and considered the evidence for effectiveness. In exploring differences between the five countr…
Beyond Contact? Policy approaches to work with families of looked after children in four European countries
In E ngland, placement within the looked after system is not viewed as a desirable long‐term solution for most children, and policy has prioritised continued contact with parents, and swift return home, wherever possible. This review examines policy approaches to work with families of looked after children in England and in three other E uropean countries: D enmark, F rance and the N etherlands, aiming to identify areas for shared learning in rel…
L’implication des parents dans l’éducation de leur enfant placé. Approches européennes
En protection de l’enfance, comme dans d’autres dispositifs éducatifs, le principe d’une implication des parents tend à s’imposer dans le discours officiel. Dans la pratique, cependant, le placement d’un enfant en institution ou en famille entraîne un éloignement et une disqualification des parents. À partir d’une recherche menée dans quatre pays européens, cet article tente de cerner ce que recouvre la notion d’implication et comment les parents…
Care, gender and employment
Over the last 30 years, the authors have collaborated with Julia Brannen on five major research studies: the Day Care Project in the 1980s; the study of Four Generation Families at the turn of the millennium; the Care Careers Project in the mid 2000s; and, most recently, Fathers across Three Generations and the Food Practices and Employed Families with Younger Children studies. This article offers an overview of the studies, situating them in the…
Psychology (20 works) · Political science (18 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Nursing (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Public relations (12 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Economics (11 works) · Business (9 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (8 works)