Social Policy and Society

Sam Wai-Kam Yu

Iris Po-Yee Lo

Jack Wai-Chik Yue

Some Useful Sources – CORRIGENDUM

一些有用的资源 – 勘误

This article contributes to the growing research field investigating intensive intervention programmes aimed at families with complex needs, focusing on the experiences of long-term poor families in Norway. There is a growing public concern about social inequalities in Norway, especially regarding child poverty and the negative effects of social and economic exclusion. The innovation project New Patterns is a means to compensate for the present silo-organised social welfare system, opting to develop holistic services targeting poor families with diverse challenges. Based on interviews and observation, the article examines how parents experience being subjected to extensive but voluntary family intervention by a designated family coordinator. We analyse what forms of change they are identifying as happening after working with the family coordinator. We find that the changes they identify can be labelled both as small moments and turning points and argue that small moments can instigate decisive changes.

Hilde Danielsen

Kjetil Lundberg

Small Moments and Turning Points for Long-term Poor Families in Norway: The Lived Experience of Having a Family Coordinator

挪威长期贫困家庭的小时刻与转折点：拥有家庭协调员的生活体验

This paper investigates an encounter in a multilingual welfare setting where a child with migration experiences is the rights holder. The empirical basis is a story told by the interpreter Nour, about an encounter at a youth clinic. The analysis is guided by the concept of linguistic (in)justice. Findings show that linguistic injustices are a result of the reproduction of monolingual mindsets and linguistic paternalism in the intersection of layers of power asymmetries when welfare professionals do not let the child client talk, when adults talk on the child’s behalf, and the speakers give priority to the majority language on behalf of the language that the child speak. These findings suggest that professionals and policymakers must recognise the special conditions of a multilingual setting and children as a particular group of language rights holders.

Kristina Gustafsson

Nour Kaisso

Linnéa Åberg

Eva Norström

Children as Linguistic Rights Holders in the Swedish Welfare System

瑞典福利制度中的儿童语言权利持有者

While previous research has highlighted the significant role of language in conditioning migrants’ access to key institutions of the welfare state, the question of how individual migrants experience linguistic disadvantage has been less in focus. Drawing on a relational approach, the article moves beyond the idea of language barriers as a static structure of (in)equality or a matter of individual shortcomings. It demonstrates how language policies and language ideologies, and their entanglements with more general trends in welfare policies and ideologies, shape migrants’ relational experiences with the welfare states and their representatives, and what are the implications of such interactions – or the lack of interaction. Empirically, it builds on qualitative data collected in Belgium and Finland, showing how language barriers and discrimination can result in Kafkaesque administrative processes that produce both material and affective hardship for migrants in these national contexts.

Camilla Nordberg

Anna Simola

Migrants’ Relational Experiences with the Welfare State at the Street Level: A Focus on the Role of Language

移民与福利国家在街道层面的关系体验：聚焦语言的角色

Abstract Given the complexity of unpaid care work in the Indian context, this study employs advanced machine learning techniques to unveil hidden patterns within the 2019 time-use survey dataset. The study pursues a dual objective: (1) assessing the superior predictive capability of machine learning over traditional statistical methods in estimating unpaid care work time, and (2) unveiling the sociodemographic determinants of extended unpaid care work durations. The results emphasise the exceptional predictive performance of machine learning, notably the random forest analysis, with a noteworthy 9 per cent improvement in forecast accuracy. Key determinants influencing unpaid care work time encompass gender, employment status, marital situation, and age. Findings underscore the heightened vulnerability of young married women without employment, who face amplified unpaid care work demands, exacerbating related challenges and risks. It further highlights the country’s imperative for a comprehensive care framework to mitigate caregiving constraints hindering women’s equitable participation in evolving economic paradigms.

Saumya Tripathi

Predicting Unpaid Care Work in India Using Random Forest: An Analysis of Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors

使用随机森林预测印度未支付护理工作：社会经济和人口因素分析

Meeting social need is usually associated in social policy with the provision of benefits and public services, and the role of taxation often confined to an acknowledgement of its revenue-raising function for the purpose of funding them. Against a backdrop of multiple concurrent challenges shared by many high-income societies, including inadequate social care for an ageing population and unprecedented waiting lists for health care, the UK’s experience of the short-lived Health and Social Care Levy is used as a case study to reveal how the relationship between taxation and social need is complex, mediated by a range of factors, and how these contributed to its abolition. The article proposes five different relationships between taxation and social need evident in the story of the rise and fall of the Levy.

Sally Ruane

Taxation and Social Need: Lessons from the Short-Lived UK Health and Social Care Levy

税收与社会需求：从英国短暂的健康与社会护理税中汲取的教训

Abbreviation	Social Policy & Society
Journal Impact	2.37
Quartiles(Global)	SOCIAL WORK(Q1)

ISSN	1474-7464, 1475-3073
h-index	35

Publication Information	Publisher: Cambridge University Press，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 2013，Proportion of original research papers: 98.72%，Self Citation Rate:13.00%， Gold OA Rate: 52.68%

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Some Useful Sources – CORRIGENDUM

Small Moments and Turning Points for Long-term Poor Families in Norway: The Lived Experience of Having a Family Coordinator

Children as Linguistic Rights Holders in the Swedish Welfare System

Migrants’ Relational Experiences with the Welfare State at the Street Level: A Focus on the Role of Language

Predicting Unpaid Care Work in India Using Random Forest: An Analysis of Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors

Small Moments and Turning Points for Long-term Poor Families in Norway: The Lived Experience of Having a Family Coordinator

Children as Linguistic Rights Holders in the Swedish Welfare System

Migrants’ Relational Experiences with the Welfare State at the Street Level: A Focus on the Role of Language

Predicting Unpaid Care Work in India Using Random Forest: An Analysis of Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors

Taxation and Social Need: Lessons from the Short-Lived UK Health and Social Care Levy