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Supporting Parents to Support Family Life: A Central Challenge for Family Minded Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2010

Harriet Clarke
Harriet Clarke*
Affiliation:
Institute of Applied Social Studies, University of Birmingham E-mail: h.clarke@bham.ac.uk
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Abstract

Disabled parents can experience difficulties when trying to access services to support their parenting role, and this is exacerbated wherever disability continues to be articulated as if it were impairment and associated with a need for ‘care’. Disabled parents and their families experiences of services demonstrate that, for a family approach to be positively developed within social policy, individuals should be kept in sharp focus by policy makers, practitioners and researchers. Failure to do so can result in the problematisation of parents who have support requirements, itself a barrier to the development of appropriate services for parents and families.

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Themed Section on Family Minded Policy and Whole Family Practice
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Social Policy and Society , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , October 2010 , pp. 567 - 577
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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