This path-breaking text constructs a new way of thinking about social work based on
contemporary social theory. Working in a counter-tradition that is suspicious of a number of …

It is 4pm on a crisp November afternoon in 1978. I am pacing up and down the road outside
the house I intend to visit to investigate a complaint of alleged child abuse. I am a student …

This paper examines the changing form of knowledge in social work over the past thirty
years and its implications for theory and practice. In particular, it considers the impact of new …

Within a very short space of time, the concept of personalization has come to occupy a
central place within dominant social work and adult care discourses within the UK. Through …

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Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are becoming central to the remaking of
social work with children and families in England and Wales. Factors hel** to steer this …

In August 2006, along with other British social work academics, I was fortunate enough to
attend the International Association of Schools of Social Work Conference in Santiago …

In recent years, attention to the psychological and emotional aspects of doing child
protection has been largely ignored in the literature and squeezed out of understandings of …

Policy makers, professionals and the public have become increasingly concerned with
identifying and managing young people who are not only troubled or at risk, but troubling or …

Since coming to power, New Labour has embarked on a programme of modernization. Few
areas of state activity have been more visibly subjected to New Labour's modernization …