This article presents an analysis of policies on young carers in England, considering both the design but also the lived experience of policy subjects. Drawing on affect theory we can increase understanding of the reach of these policies into family life and the nature of English policy-making focussed on this group. This analytic framework presents the opportunity to draw on the use of affect theory developed in other disciplines but less so in the discipline of social policy. The article argues, firstly, that normative messages through policy design are conveyed to families through affects. Secondly, it argues that hierarchies of subject positions established within policy design are reaching and impacting on young carers and their families through affective pressures. This article demonstrates that affect theory contributes to the analysis of social policies on young carers and also illuminates the impacts of policies in the context of limited formal implementation.

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政策设计的影响：2014 年《护理法》和《2014 年儿童和家庭法》中的年轻护理者的案例

本文从政策主题的设计和生活经验两方面分析了英格兰年轻护理人员的政策。借助情感理论，我们可以加深对这些政策对家庭生活的影响以及针对这一群体的英国政策制定的性质的理解。这种分析框架提供了利用其他学科中发展起来的情感理论的机会，但在社会政策学科中则较少使用。文章认为，首先，通过政策设计将规范信息通过情感传达给家庭。其次，它认为在政策设计中建立的学科职位等级正在通过情感压力影响和影响年轻的照顾者及其家庭。