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 …

Without a doubt, structural and institutionalised racism is still present in Britain and Europe, a
factor that social work education and training has been slow to acknowledge. In this timely …

Paul Michael Garrett's Social work and social theory is a wonderfully rich reflection on the
uses of social theory to critically contextualize social work practice. Drawing on a wide range …

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 …

Modern-day politics has much to learn from social work values. It is well understood in our
field that cooperation is a craft and its foundations lay in learning to listen well and discuss …

Those of us who've been around a while and know how we used to work, we keep getting
into conflicts with the social workers of this new dawn.[…] Today, if I allow myself to …

Increasing marketization; policies which enhance and embrace the idea of multi-agency
collaborative working, and an economic climate in which the biggest spending cuts since the …

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

The purpose of this research is to examine work alienation (WA) as a mediator in the
relationship between employees' perceptions of person‐organization (PO) fit …

This paper draws upon case study research to explore deviant social work. This is defined
as small-scale acts of resistance, subterfuge, deception or even sabotage that are typically …