Incoherent and Indefensible? A Normative Analysis of Young People’s Position in England’s Welfare and Homelessness Systems

IF 1.9 3区社会学 Q3 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Journal of Social Policy Pub Date : 2023-05-29 DOI:10.1017/s0047279423000193

Kit Colliver

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Abstract

Young people experience different treatment compared to older adults in the English welfare and homelessness systems, encountering varying levels of protection and disadvantage. This paper uses a value-pluralist perspective to explore the normative rationales for and the ethical defensibility of these policy differences. Evidence from 38 key informant interviews suggests that the English homelessness system is shifting towards a vulnerability-oriented response to young people. But an inconsistent value framework within the welfare system systematically disadvantages them without offering a corresponding degree of protection. As such, these closely-connected areas of social policy pull in opposing directions. Although individual positions targeting young people may (to greater and lesser extents) be justifiable, this disparity in values creates an incoherent and indefensible welfare policy landscape for this group.

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语无伦次和站不住脚?青少年在英国福利和无家可归制度中的地位的规范分析

在英国的福利和无家可归制度中，年轻人与老年人相比，受到不同程度的保护和不利待遇。本文运用价值多元主义的视角，探讨这些政策差异的规范性依据和伦理正当性。来自38个关键信息者访谈的证据表明，英国的无家可归者系统正在转向以弱势群体为导向的对年轻人的回应。但是，福利制度中不一致的价值框架在没有提供相应程度的保护的情况下，系统性地使他们处于不利地位。因此，这些密切相关的社会政策领域相互对立。尽管针对年轻人的个人立场可能(或多或少)是合理的，但这种价值观上的差异为这一群体创造了一个不连贯和站不住脚的福利政策景观。

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Journal of Social Policy Multiple-

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4.40

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20.00%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Social Policy carries high quality articles on all aspects of social policy in an international context. It places particular emphasis upon articles which seek to contribute to debates on the future direction of social policy, to present new empirical data, to advance theories, or to analyse issues in the making and implementation of social policies. The Journal of Social Policy is part of the "Social Policy Package", which also includes Social Policy and Society and the Social Policy Digest. An online resource, the Social Policy Digest, was launched in 2003. The Digest provides a regularly up-dated, fully searchable, summary of policy developments and research findings across the whole range of social policy.