‘I probably wouldn’t want to talk about anything too personal’: A qualitative exploration of how issues of privacy, confidentiality and surveillance in the home impact on access and engagement with online services and spaces for care-experienced young people

Stabler, Lorna, Cunningham, Emily, Mannay, Dawn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7368-4111, Boffey, Maria, Cummings, Aimee, Davies, Brittany, Wooders, Charlotte, Vaughan, Rachael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6951-8647 and Evans, Rhiannon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0239-6331 2023. ‘I probably wouldn’t want to talk about anything too personal’: A qualitative exploration of how issues of privacy, confidentiality and surveillance in the home impact on access and engagement with online services and spaces for care-experienced young people. Adoption & Fostering 47 (3) , pp. 277-294. 10.1177/03085759231203019

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Abstract

This paper draws on a qualitative interview-based study that explored online mental health and wellbeing interventions and services for care-experienced young people. The study involved young people (n = 4), foster carers (n = 8), kinship carers (n = 2) and social care professionals (n = 9) in Wales, UK. The paper reflects on the complexities of online communication in the space of ‘the home’. It documents the ways in which care-experienced young people’s living arrangements can restrict access to services and complicate confidentiality within portals to the virtual world, creating an environment where young people and their carers ‘wouldn’t want to talk about anything too personal’. Drawing on data generated in a study focused on services and interventions to support the mental health and wellbeing of care-experienced children and young people, the paper considers privacy, confidentiality and surveillance in the home and reflects on how associated relational practices impact on care-experienced young people. While the data discussed in this paper was generated during the Covid-19 pandemic, its findings have implications for how care-experienced young people and their carers can be supported to engage with the digital world in the future.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer) Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE)
Additional Information:	License information from Publisher: LICENSE 1: URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, Start Date: 2023-10-19
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
ISSN:	0308-5759
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	23 October 2023
Last Modified:	23 Oct 2023 11:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/163419

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