future of children's social work
Emerald Publishing Limited
Published on 30. October 2017
152 pages
978-1-78754-548-9 (ISBN)
Description
We could say that social work for children is at the crossroads. Perhaps it has always been thus. At least in England. Here there is a lot of despondency about the profession, indeed there is much despondency about all of the professions. The challenges are well charted in the pages of this ebook. But there is also much innovation and development, and some commentators are highly optimistic about the future. We felt, therefore, that it was time to catch our breath, take stock and bring together a broad spectrum of social workers, their managers, government policy makers, and academics to report on their innovations, thoughts, research and other experiences. Most but not all of the contributors to this ebook are from the UK, and in the main they write about the situation in England. But the opportunities and challenges about which they write are, we know, alive internationally, even if they play out in different ways in different countries.
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- Covers
- Guest editorial
- Personal social services for children and families in the UK: a historical review
- The contemporary refocusing of children's services in England
- In defence of a university social work education
- Child protection in England: an emerging inequalities perspective
- People and systems: reflections on the development of social work for children
- Supporting practice: reflections on a career in children's social work
- Online video supervision for statutory youth caseworkers - a pilot study
- The future of child protection may not be in local government
- Outcomes in Children's Social Care
- The end of false choices
- Does reflective supervision have a future in English local authority child and family social work?
- From "silo" to "network" profession - a multi-professional future for social work
- Being more human - why children's social care should be more about people and less about paper-work
- Bringing back the social: the way forward for children's social work?
- Turning the ship around: reflections on changing a nation's social work practice system in the interests of children and families
- Future proofing child protection social work
- Equipping the child welfare work force to improve the well-being of children
