Social work in the United Kingdom is preoccupied with what social workers cannot do due to
having limited time to spend with service users. Yet remarkably little research has examined …

From the findings of a study examining the perspective of parents using Intensive Family
Support Service based in northern England, this paper examines the constituent elements …

There is relatively little research on the communication skills that social workers use in direct
practice with families. This study explores patterns of practice skill found in child and family …

Research into child and family social work has largely stopped short of getting close enough
to practice to produce understandings of what goes on between social workers and service …

Social worker–client relationship practice has always been and remains central to
contemporary social work purpose and identity. The professional “helping relationship” can …

Social workers need a framework for understanding and helping children and families which
takes into account the inner world of the self and the outer world of the environment, both in …

Relationship-based practice has become an influential theory through which social work
practice is understood. However, much more critical attention needs to be given to the kinds …

The 1970s saw social work as the rising star of the human service professions in the UK.
Since then, the profession has been under attack from the media and politicians, this …

One of the key lessons learnt in the UK from the Laming Inquiry into the death of Victoria
Climbié was the importance of social workers developing consistent and long‐term …

Practice theories to support child protection social work in the United Kingdom, as in the
United States and Australia, are being squeezed out by a focus on performance targets and …