Parenting policy and the geographies of friendship: Encounters in a Sure Start Children's Centre

Jupp, Eleanor (2012) Parenting policy and the geographies of friendship: Encounters in a Sure Start Children's Centre. In: Kraftl, Peter and Horton, John and Tucker, Faith, eds. Critical Geographies of Childhood and Youth: policy and practice. Policy Press, University of Bristol, Bristol. ISBN 978-1-84742-846-2. (doi:10.1332/policypress/9781847428462.003.0013) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:54957)

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Abstract

This chapter takes a qualitative approach to a Sure Start Children's Centre as a space framed by a particular set of policy imperatives. It is argued that the targets of policy are not simply translated into the space and that interactions between staff and users are somewhat ‘uneasy’ and ambivalent because of this. It is also argued that friendships between groups of parents play an important role in mediating access to the centre as part of wider ‘caringscapes’ of parenting

Item Type:	Book section
DOI/Identification number:	10.1332/policypress/9781847428462.003.0013
Uncontrolled keywords:	Sure Start, Children's Centres, Parenting, Friendship, Care, Inclusions/exclusions
Subjects:	H Social Sciences
Institutional Unit:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Former Institutional Unit:	Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
Depositing User:	Eleanor Jupp
Date Deposited:	13 Apr 2016 14:16 UTC
Last Modified:	20 May 2025 13:57 UTC
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/54957 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Jupp, Eleanor.

Creator's ORCID:	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5578-2861
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