The idea to do the Just Coping report came out of a meeting held by Kent County Council to discuss how the Council approached ‘dysfunctional families’. Although it was agreed that everyone at the meeting wanted to help these families it emerged that there was not a consensus about how this should be achieved or even what the main day-to-day problems for the families were.
To solve the problem of not fully understanding the issues the families face the group decided to hire trained anthropologists who could conduct qualitative research with the families; asking what they wanted and needed and also observing their everyday lives over a number of days.
Alongside the research of the anthropologists the team conducted interviews with the workers who deal with the families they wanted to understand more about. The ideas and findings were brought together over an intensive two-day ideas-generation workshop hosted by SILK.
The Just Coping report is a culmination of all that research.
Where this project sits in the SILK framework
The Just Coping project sits within Diamond 1 of the SILK framework.
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