State and civil society actor interviews on parenting support in England

Daly, Mary and Bray, Rachel (2015). State and civil society actor interviews on parenting support in England. [Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive. 10.5255/UKDA-SN-851776

The central interest of the research project is to identify and characterise the kind of social policy measures that are involved in parenting support. The project explores the type of interventions and programmes that have been put in place over the last decade or so. A second objective is to identify the factors that are driving the move to parenting support. Using interviews with experts, decision-makers and service providers (N=39), the project examines how views around good parenting are translated into policy and how the relevant policy developments are related to other domains of policy (e.g., child welfare, family policy and so forth) and other ideas about children’s and parents’ welfare.

Data description (abstract)

The collection contains 39 verbatim transcripts from interviews with 40 respondents involved in the field of parenting support in England. Of the 40 people interviewed, 14 are experts (academics and others with advisory or advocacy roles), 16 are service providers (within local government and voluntary sector organisations) and 10 are decision makers (within national and local government).

Data creators:

Creator Name	Affiliation	ORCID (as URL)
Daly Mary	University of Oxford
Bray Rachel	University of Oxford	http://0000-0002-5079

Sponsors:

ESRC

Grant reference:

ES/I014861/2

Topic classification:

Social welfare policy and systems
Society and culture

Keywords:

family, policy, parental role, parent education, welfare services, child rearing, child protection, child support agencies, early childhood

Project title:

Governing 'new social risks': The case of recent child policies in European welfare states.

Alternative title:

Parenting support in England as policy and provision

Grant holders:

Mary Daly

Project dates:

From	To
15 October 2012	28 February 2015

Date published:

17 Apr 2015 12:23

Last modified:

17 Apr 2015 16:03

Coverage and Methodology

Temporal coverage:

From	To
1 January 2000	30 June 2014

Collection period:

Date from:	Date to:
15 October 2012	28 February 2015

Geographical area:

Across England in the case of national level actors, and in two case study areas. One is a local authority in south east England and the second a London Borough council.

Country:

United Kingdom

Spatial unit:

Administrative > Local Authority Districts

Data collection method:

Face-to-face elite interviewing based on a guide containing open-ended questions. Interviews lasted approximately 1 hour. Sampling procedures for the three groups of respondents were as follows: Service providers were selected from the two case study areas to contain equal representation of those who engage directly with parents and those who manage services, and to achieve a match in role and seniority between the two areas. Decision makers were selected to represent key actors in the two study areas and at national level. Experts were drawn from a list of national-level actors engaged in research, advising or planning in the field of parenting support, with senior roles in a range of institutions (academic, advocacy and national provider organisations).

Observation unit:

Individual

Kind of data:

Text

Type of data:

Qualitative and mixed methods data

Resource language:

English

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Publications

Parenting support in England: The bedding down of a new policy (in progress)

special issue on parenting (proposed for early 2016)

Website

Governing 'new social risks': The case of recent child policies in European welfare states.

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