Social Policy Support For Families in the UK and South Korea: To What Extent Does Family Support Create Inclusive Growth and Social Cohesion?

英国和韩国对家庭的社会政策支持：家庭支持在多大程度上创造包容性增长和社会凝聚力？

• 批准号: ES/W010712/1
• 负责人: Sung-Hee Lee
• 金额: $ 6.4万
• 依托单位: University of Derby
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW010712%2F1
• 关键词: Social; Policy; Support; Families; UK

Family friendly social policy has a strong link to the achievement of key social goals, such as those in the UN Sustainable Development Goals, including inclusive growth and social cohesion. However, even in high income countries, policies supporting families are often inadequate. The Covid-19 pandemic graphically exposed these weaknesses in social policy for families in both the UK and South Korea. At the same time, the pandemic also highlighted how both social cohesion and economic growth depend on families and households. In the UK, this included the dependence on families to provide both care and home schooling in 'lockdown', the way in which restrictions on childcare and school provision hindered labour market participation, increasing the negative economic effects of the crisis. Similarly, in South Korea, the pandemic has interrupted social relations and networks increasing the risk of unemployment for women who took on the majority of the caring burden.The research will explore how social policy supports (or not) families in both countries and will highlight how research, policy and practice can learn from experience in each country. Ultimately the aim of the research will be to identify how policy and practice can better support families and households in each country, with this being a stepping-stone to more inclusive growth and social cohesion. While 'family friendly' social policy is often regarded as relating to childcare, parental leave, flexible employment practices and welfare supports, we broaden this to include other forms of emerging family issues such as a lack of social care, children's wellbeing, family support for crime diversion/desistance. We also include the delivery of family policy via non-standard organisations such as in arts or sports participation and the automation of care using robots and artificial intelligence. To achieve its longer-term aims, the project will facilitate the establishment and development of a collaborative network of researchers, policy makers and practitioners interested in how social policy supports families/households in both countries.The network will develop from existing collaborations between the Principal and Co-Investigators through four specific foci: (a) social care (b) children's wellbeing, (c) desistance from crime, (d) family support through technical innovations and artistic and cultural participations. Four Research Workshops (online) and two subsequent Symposia (face-to-face) will take place in the UK and South Korea in order to develop deeper professional collaborative relationships. Those travelling for the in-person Symposia will have participated in an online Workshop and will be selected to have most capacity for cross-country collaboration to further the development of the network.The collaboration will result in the publication of two collaborative outputs in the form of a Special Issue of an academic journal and an edited volume. We will also produce a series of ten policy briefings containing key findings from different researchers in the collaboration (i.e. focussing on the UK and South Korea). Some of the outputs will be co-authored by UK/South Korean researchers together. It will also produce two funding proposals to sustain the network and collaborative research between participants. Finally, the partnership will be supported through an infrastructure (e.g. website, art exchange/art exhibition, infographics or photo sharing) which will be institutionalised through approaching international scholarly associations to establish a UK-South Korea Working Group for research on social policy and families (such as The East Asian Social Policy Network or the Korean Institute for Childcare and Education). This will be useful in broadening and sustaining collaboration beyond the direct activities of the partners and participants in this project.

家庭友好型社会政策与实现关键社会目标密切相关，例如联合国可持续发展目标中的目标，包括包容性增长和社会凝聚力。然而，即使在高收入国家，支持家庭的政策也往往不足。 Covid-19 大流行生动地暴露了英国和韩国家庭社会政策的这些弱点。与此同时，疫情也凸显了社会凝聚力和经济增长如何依赖于家庭和家庭。在英国，这包括在“封锁”期间依赖家庭提供看护和家庭教育，对儿童保育和学校供应的限制阻碍了劳动力市场的参与，增加了危机的负面经济影响。同样，在韩国，疫情扰乱了社会关系和网络，增加了承担大部分照料负担的女性的失业风险。该研究将探讨社会政策如何支持（或不支持）两国的家庭，并将重点关注研究、政策和实践如何从每个国家的经验中学习。该研究的最终目的是确定政策和实践如何更好地支持每个国家的家庭和家庭，这是实现更具包容性的增长和社会凝聚力的基石。虽然“家庭友好”社会政策通常被认为与儿童保育、育儿假、灵活就业做法和福利支持有关，但我们将其范围扩大到包括其他形式的新出现的家庭问题，例如缺乏社会关怀、儿童福祉、家庭支持等。犯罪转移/阻止。我们还包括通过非标准组织提供家庭政策，例如艺术或体育参与以及使用机器人和人工智能的自动化护理。为了实现其长期目标，该项目将促进建立和发展一个由对社会政策如何支持两国家庭/家庭感兴趣的研究人员、政策制定者和从业者组成的合作网络。该网络将在校长之间现有的合作基础上发展起来和联合调查人员通过四个具体重点：（a）社会关怀，（b）儿童福祉，（c）制止犯罪，（d）通过技术创新以及艺术和文化参与提供家庭支持。四场研究研讨会（在线）和随后的两场研讨会（面对面）将在英国和韩国举行，以发展更深层次的专业合作关系。参加现场研讨会的人员将参加在线研讨会，并将被选为最有能力进行跨国合作以进一步发展网络的人。此次合作将出版以下形式的两项合作成果：学术期刊的特刊和编辑卷。我们还将制作一系列十份政策简报，其中包含合作中不同研究人员的主要发现（即重点关注英国和韩国）。一些成果将由英国/韩国研究人员共同撰写。它还将提出两项资助提案，以维持参与者之间的网络和合作研究。最后，这种伙伴关系将通过基础设施（例如网站、艺术交流/艺术展览、信息图表或照片共享）得到支持，该基础设施将通过与国际学术协会接洽建立一个英国-韩国工作组来制度化，以研究社会政策和家庭（例如东亚社会政策网络或韩国儿童保育和教育研究所）。这将有助于扩大和维持本项目合作伙伴和参与者直接活动之外的合作。