Policy and Social Work Practice

Tony Evans, Frank Keating, Tony Evans, Frank Keating, Author

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781848606982
  9781848606975
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473943902
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Work
• Index: Social Sciences

Social policy is central to social work practice. This textbook is designed to help students, practitioners and academics think critically about the relationship between policy and practice; particularly in how policy both structures and informs practice. Reflective questions help critical thinking and links to websites of substantive information across the UK and internationally  help keep you up-to-date with policy developments.

 

The authors? experience and skills in working with different service user groups combine to provide a constructive and critical approach to working with social policy in an era of welfare retrenchment.

Key topics include: discretion and practice; social work training and education; safeguarding children; responses to the needs of looked after children; personalization in adult care; 'race' and welfare policy; domestic violence; mental health and capacity; and comparing social work and social care internationally.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Publisher Note
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• About the Editors and Contributors
• Introduction: Policy and Social Work
• 1 Discretion in the History and Development of Social Work
• 2 Social Work Education and Training as a Policy Issue
• 3 Prevention and Protection: The Development of Safeguarding in Children’s Services
• 4 Children Like Ours? Policy and Practice Responses to Children Looked After
• 5 Personalisation
• 6 Mental Capacity and Social Policy
• 7 Social Welfare Policy in Racialised Contexts
• 8 International Social Work: Understanding Social Work within Social Policy Systems
• 9 Domestic Violence: UK and Australian Developments
• 10 Local Policy in a Global Context: Regimes of Risk in Mental Health Policy and Practice – The Case of Community Treatment Orders
• Concluding Thoughts: The Interface between Social Policy and Social Work
• Index