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Lutman-White, Eleanor and Angouri, Jo (2022) Marginal voices : exploring presence and participation in interaction in child protection conferences. Discourse & Society, 33 (3). pp. 324-348. doi:10.1177/09579265221108024 ISSN 0957-9265.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265221108024
Abstract
Child protection conferences are key meetings in the social work child protection process in England. They provide the context where decisions are made about how best to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and constitute an important opportunity for social work services to work in partnership with parents; yet there is little research about what happens interactionally in these meetings and particularly about parents’ participation. Using interactional sociolinguistics, we analyse the data from three audio-recorded child protection conferences, focusing on sequences where concerns are raised and responded to, to illuminate how parent involvement is accomplished interactionally. We look specifically at the linguistic and discursive features of turns and the management of the floor, connecting the sequential nature of the account sequences to presence and participation. The analysis shows a contrast between professionals’ participation versus parents’ presence in this asymmetrical event, suggesting a marginalisation of parents’ contributions and a mismatch between the principle of partnership working with parents and practice in this area of child protection social work.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Child welfare , Child welfare -- Congresses -- Decision making, Social work with children , Social work with children -- Congresses -- Decision making, Sociolinguistics, Communication in organizations, Language and languages -- Semantics, Organizational behavior | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Discourse & Society | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0957-9265 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 May 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 33 | ||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 324-348 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/09579265221108024 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 January 2022 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 25 January 2022 | ||||||||
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