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Network logic Certainly, if we are interested in the promotion of ties between the worse off and the better off – which is important in stimulating labour market mobility – then there is no evidence that voluntary bodies are any more effective in this than are comparable public bodies. Furthermore, social services agencies are less effective than education bodies, irrespective of sector. While membership of voluntary bodies may be associated with attitudes such as willingness to trust others, 11 it is far from clear that membership causes any change in attitudes: associations may well typically recruit people who are already readier to trust others. Interestingly, the evaluative studies do suggest that the most effective interventions are the least direct and the least coercive. For example, support for voluntary social networks of local small business entrepreneurs has been found effective in stimulating the kinds of typically individualistic networks that can help in local economic development. In addition, providing life skills training to those least able to form friendships and acquaintances for various reasons appears often to be capable of making a significant difference at the individual level. Least effective in influencing social networks in any lasting way appear to be the many interventions whereby public services provide an ‘artificial friend’ such as a mentor, or a specially created group (these measures may have other merits, of course). Physical measures to change architecture and town layout tend to be effective mainly in the negative sense that certain kinds of crime can be made more difficult, and certain spaces more easily surveyed by residents. However, their effects on actual social networks seem not to be very great, and least significant in respect of forming new ties that would not otherwise have been created. The policy challenge Moreover, implementing such measures can be very challenging. The skills required are not always available. Indeed, some public service professions have been reformed in recent years precisely to shift their work away from influencing patterns of social networks. Social work has increasingly focused on practical support for older people and 138 Demos
Your friendship networks protective interventions for children. Probation has been directed towards more supervisory work, such as risk assessment, cognitive behavioural interventions at the individual level and enforcement, and away from its traditional role in shaping the social aspects of rehabilitation. The pastoral role of teaching has been squeezed by the need to focus on curriculum delivery and maintaining discipline. While new skills for helping people to cultivate networks may be emerging in neighbourhood renewal work, and perhaps even among some employment advisers, they are hardly formalised, trained or valued as such. It is also clear that the tools for shaping social networks are better developed in those services that work with the least advantaged. For those who think that public services should always be targeted upon the worst off, and for those who think that problems about social networks mainly affect the poorest, perhaps this is not a problem. But government should be concerned about the extent to which the least well-off can use their networks to access people who are better off than themselves, not only for instrumental reasons to do with seeking work, but also to avoid the deepening mutual enclaving of the social classes in respect of social ties that tends to follow whenever any society goes through a period of growing income and wealth inequality combined with high levels of fear of crime. In this context, the limited nature of the toolkit with which government can address the social ties of the better-off might well be a matter of some concern. 12 This suggests that government ought to be very cautious before advocating ambitious policies for ‘promoting social capital’, as some enthusiastic researchers and even some policy advocates in the World Bank have been doing. 13 This is not only out of suspicion of grand social engineering projects in general but, more practically, because policy-makers ought to recognise how little we really know about how public services can develop sets of practices that might have lasting influence on the social networks of service users and nonusers alike. In addition, they must recognise how far we are from understanding how to strike trade-offs or make intelligent choices Demos 139
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