European Journal of Social Work ( IF 1.764 ) Pub Date : 2021-02-05 Joe Hanley, Michael McGrath-Brookes, Martyn Higgins
ABSTRACT
November 2019 saw the release of A Blueprint for Children's Social Care (hereafter the Blueprint) in England. The Blueprint proposes introducing the Buurtzorg model of community nursing into the child protection social work in England, and received widespread interest and publicity. Buurtzorg is a Dutch community nursing agency that is based on a specific model of small self-managing and non-hierarchal teams. The authors of the Blueprint suggest that rapid and large-scale introduction of Buurtzorg into child protection social work would overcome many of the longstanding issues facing the profession in England. However, there are serious limitations to the suggestions outlined in the Blueprint and the Buurtzorg model does not translate well to child protection social work in England. Drawing on the work of Mark Fisher, this article examines the Blueprint under three core themes: consent and consensus, links with other neoliberal projects and failing forward. Ultimately, it is shown that the Blueprint can be considered part of a wider project of implementing neoliberal policies and market solutions to children's social care in England, a process that is increasingly being led by large, profit-driven global consultancy firms.
中文翻译:
拆除蓝图:Buurtzorg在英语中的儿童保护社会工作
摘要
2019年11月,英国发布了《儿童社会照护蓝图》(以下简称《蓝图》)。蓝图建议将布尔佐格社区护理模式引入英格兰的儿童保护社会工作中,并引起了广泛的关注和宣传。Buurtzorg是荷兰社区护理机构,它基于小型的自我管理和非等级团队的特定模型。蓝图的作者建议,将Buurtzorg快速并大规模地引入儿童保护社会工作中,将克服该行业在英国面临的许多长期问题。但是,《蓝图》中概述的建议受到严重限制,Buurtzorg模型无法很好地转化为英格兰的儿童保护社会工作。借鉴马克·费舍尔(Mark Fisher)的工作,本文以三个核心主题研究了蓝图:同意和共识,与其他新自由主义项目的联系以及失败。最终,可以证明该蓝图可以被视为在英格兰实施新自由主义政策和市场解决方案的更广泛项目的一部分,以解决儿童社会福利问题。这一过程越来越多地由大型,以利益为导向的全球咨询公司主导。