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.

摘要

2019 年 11 月，英国发布了《儿童社会关怀蓝图》（以下简称蓝图）。《蓝图》提出将社区护理的Buurtzorg模式引入英国儿童保护社会工作，受到广泛关注和宣传。Buurtzorg 是一家荷兰社区护理机构，它基于小型自我管理和无等级团队的特定模型。蓝图的作者认为，将 Buurtzorg 快速、大规模地引入儿童保护社会工作将克服英国该行业面临的许多长期问题。然而，蓝图中概述的建议存在严重的局限性，并且 Buurtzorg 模型不能很好地转化为英国的儿童保护社会工作。借鉴 Mark Fisher 的工作，本文在三个核心主题下审查蓝图：同意和共识、与其他新自由主义项目的联系和失败。最终，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以解决儿童社会关怀的更广泛项目的一部分，这一过程越来越多地由大型、以利润为导向的全球咨询公司领导。