Misrecognition or recognition? A critical discussion of care experience as a protected characteristic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7276456 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catriona Hugman (Liverpool Hope University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 214-230 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-11 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical and Radical Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2049-8675 • E-ISSN: 2049-8608 |
| Publisher | Bristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1332/20498608y2024d000000067 |
| OpenAlex | W4406281039 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
The work critically discusses the basis for enshrining care experience as a protected characteristic. Including care experience as a protected characteristic was a recommendation in an independent review, and now several local councils have voted to adopt this as policy. Despite this, there has been little discussion by social workers and academics of the extent to which care experience fulfils the criteria of having a stable definition, evidence of historical and enduring discrimination, and whether such legislative changes have been discussed with the care-experienced population. This research discusses the current evidence base, with reference to academic and grey literature, and finds that there is some fulfilment of the three tenets underpinning the UK Equality Act 2010. Crucially, while this is a means for care-experienced people to be legally recognised, there is a danger that without consultation, this could lead to misrecognition. Recommendations are made to improve the evidence base
Sociology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Psychology · Social Policies and Family
The struggle for recognition
Adult Health and Social Outcomes of Children Who Have Been in Public Care
Stigma
Modernity and self-identity
Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique
Adoption and Fostering
Re-thinking Social Research
Fortunes of Feminism
Association of childhood out-of-home care status with all-cause mortality up to 42-years later
The “Undeserving” Narrative in Child and Family Social Work and How It Is Perpetuated by “Progressive Neoliberalism”
Neoliberalism, austerity and social work with children and families
Women in revolt
Let’s stop feeding the risk monster
Hearing from justice-involved, care experienced children
Understanding looked‐after childhoods
The rights movement of young people living in and leaving care in England between 1973 and 2011
Child Welfare
Dispelling Misconceptions about Looked after Children
Keeping secrets
Untangling child welfare inequalities and the ‘Inverse Intervention Law’ in England
The consequences of being labelled ‘looked‐after’
Recognizing the Limitations of the Political Theory of Recognition
Kinship Care and Poverty
Equality Law and the Protected Characteristics
Towards geographies of child protection
The shackled runner
Work, Employment and Society
Abused and Looked After Children as 'Moral Dirt
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