Social Work

Past, Present and Future

Bamford, Terry, Bilton, Keith, Terry Bamford, Keith Bilton

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781447356530
• eBook ISBN: 9781447356561
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social History
• Index: Social Sciences

This collection charts the key developments in the social work field from 1970 to the present day and shows how by fully understanding social work's past, we can make better progress for practitioners and service users in the future.

It brings together a broad collection of experts from across social work who trace how thinking and approaches to practice have changed over time, examine key legislative developments in the field, look at the impacts of major inquiries and consider the re-emergence of certain specialisms.

Providing students and practitioners of social work and social policy with a full picture of the evolution of social work, it also shares important insights for its future directions.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Terry Bamford
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on contributors
• List of abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1. Social work in 1970
• 2. Social services departments: success or failure?
• 3. Regulation and inspection of social work: costly distraction or stimulus to improve?
• 4. Continuity and change in the knowledge base for social work
• 5. Social work education: learning from the past?
• 6. Practising social work
• 7. Looking back, looking forward: two personal views
• 8. From clients as fellow citizens to service users as co-producers of social work
• 9. The 1989 England and Wales Children Act: the high-water mark of progressive reform?
• 10. Social work with offenders
• 11. The impact of scandal and inquiries on social work and the personal social services
• 12. British social work: international context and perspectives
• Afterword