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Interviewing parents of children in care: perspectives, discourse and accountability

Hall, C.; Slembrouck, S.

Authors

C. Hall

S. Slembrouck



Abstract

The ‘parental perspective’ in child care work is a matter of concern and is actively solicited by practitioners, managers, policymakers and researchers for differing reasons. This paper argues that the search for such a stable “parental perspective” should be abandoned and suggest that research should embrace a social constructionist turn by concentrating on how parents' views are negotiated conversationally in discourse. Using data drawn from research interviews with parents of children in care and employing conversation and discourse analytic methods, the paper demonstrates how there are critical issues of accountability, blame, and testing at stake in the interview encounter, as interviewer and interviewee jointly produce a moral version of the client, the institution, the case and its attributes. The implications of this argument are delineated.

Citation

Hall, C., & Slembrouck, S. (2011). Interviewing parents of children in care: perspectives, discourse and accountability. Children and Youth Services Review, 33(3), 457-465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2010.06.016

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Mar 1, 2011
Deposit Date Feb 17, 2011
Journal Children and Youth Services Review
Print ISSN 0190-7409
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 33
Issue 3
Pages 457-465
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2010.06.016
Keywords Parents of children in care, Interviews, Parental perspectives, Accountability.

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