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All the ACEs: A chaotic concept for family policy and decision-making?

All the ACEs: A chaotic concept for family policy and decision-making?
All the ACEs: A chaotic concept for family policy and decision-making?
This paper will consider ACEs as a chaotic concept that prioritises risk and obscures the material and social conditions of the lives of its objects. It will show how the various definitions of ACEs offer no cohesive body of definitive evidence and measurement, and lead to a great deal of over-claiming. It discusses how ACEs have found their time and place, locating a variety of social ills within the child's home, family and parenting behaviours. It argues that because ACEs are confined to intra-familial circumstances, and largely to narrow parent-child relations, issues outside of parental control are not addressed. It concludes that ACEs form a poor body of evidence for family policy and decision-making about child protection and that different and less stigmatising solutions are hiding in plain sight.
1474-7464
457-466
White, Susan
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Edwards, Rosalind
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Gillies, Val
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Wastell, David
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White, Susan
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White, Susan, Edwards, Rosalind, Gillies, Val and Wastell, David (2019) All the ACEs: A chaotic concept for family policy and decision-making? Social Policy and Society, 18 (3), 457-466. (doi:10.1017/S147474641900006X).

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This paper will consider ACEs as a chaotic concept that prioritises risk and obscures the material and social conditions of the lives of its objects. It will show how the various definitions of ACEs offer no cohesive body of definitive evidence and measurement, and lead to a great deal of over-claiming. It discusses how ACEs have found their time and place, locating a variety of social ills within the child's home, family and parenting behaviours. It argues that because ACEs are confined to intra-familial circumstances, and largely to narrow parent-child relations, issues outside of parental control are not addressed. It concludes that ACEs form a poor body of evidence for family policy and decision-making about child protection and that different and less stigmatising solutions are hiding in plain sight.

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Accepted/In Press date: 10 January 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 23 April 2019

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Local EPrints ID: 428003
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/428003
ISSN: 1474-7464
PURE UUID: bd350e51-0c10-4522-8727-8c80599bcbcd
ORCID for Rosalind Edwards: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3512-9029

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Date deposited: 06 Feb 2019 17:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 07:32

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Author: Susan White
Author: Val Gillies
Author: David Wastell

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