Policy & social work practice /
Editors Evans and Keating present readers with a collection of academic essays designed to allow for critical thinking regarding the relationship between policy and practice in social work. The editors argue that social policy is central to social work practice. The ten contributions that make up th...
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Los Angeles :
SAGE,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Social Work and Policy Introduction
- Discretion in the history and development of social work
- Social Work Education and Training as a policy issue
- Prevention and protection: the development of safeguarding in children's services
- Children like ours? Policy and practice responses to children looked after
- Personalisation
- Mental capacity and social policy
- Social welfare policy in racialised contexts
- International social work: understanding social work within social policy systems
- Domestic Violence: UK and Australian developments
- Local policy in a global context: regimes of risk in mental health policy and practice
- the community treatment orders
- Concluding thoughts: the interface between social policy and social work.