Perspectives in Social Work, Talking About Welfare: Readings in Philosophy and Social Policy, People Not Cases: A Philosophical Approach to Social Work and Short-Term Contracts in Social Work

Social Work ◽  
1978 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Philosophical Approach

Review of People not cases: A philosophical approach to social work.

1978 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-43
Author(s):  
MARTIN WHITEMAN
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Philosophical Approach

Active ageing and demographic change: challenges for social work and social policy

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siniša Zrinščak ◽  
Susan Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Demographic Change ◽  
Active Ageing

Social Work and Social Welfare: The Organization of Philanthropic Resources in Britain, 1900–1914

1977 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social System ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
The State ◽  
Charity Organization ◽  
Transitional Era

Late Victorian and Edwardian social reform has been studied in recent years in order to clarify that important transitional era when new state resources were being called upon to help redress the most glaring abuses which comprised the condition-of-England question. Most of these studies have emphasized the politics of social policy and have also subsumed the tangled and competitive world of philanthropy. But philanthropists were prominent in the politics and practice of social welfare. In his study of Edwardian social policy, Bentley Gilbert distinguishes three organizations as characteristic of “scientific social reform”: settlements (inspired by Canon Samuel Barnett), the Fabians, and the Charity Organization Society. His analysis of each concluded that “professionally-minded social work,” as represented by the C.O.S., least typified the transition from old to new attitudes about social policy. David Owen's examination of English philanthropy supports Gilbert's conclusions concerning the C.O.S., and less detailed surveys of social policy also cite that agency as representative of a philosophic individualism which rejected the policies necessary for reform. All agree that the charitable community called attention to many defects in the British social system, but they leave readers with the impression that it generally opposed state sponsored remedies for those ills.It is the concern of this essay to show that the “professionally-minded” world of Edwardian philanthropy was, like the state, developing new agencies and reorganizing its resources to help meet the massive and diverse welfare needs of the twentieth century.

scholarly journals Social policy, poverty and social work

Social Work ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 74-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Walker ◽  
Alan Walker
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Policy

Social Work's Evolution in the United Kingdom: A Study of Community Care and Social Control

2009 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 336-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. David Harrison
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Model Of Practice

Community social work was a model of practice that was advocated by many roughly from the late 1970s through the 1980s, in the United Kingdom. The approach faded as the field of social work and social services changed drastically in subsequent years. This study conducted in 2006 and 2007, follows up a 1984 study of community social work advocates to learn how the same people understood the changes that occurred over more than 20 years. A total of 9 of the original 30 participants discussed the important role of social policy and social changes that appear to have led toward more individualized, mechanistic, and often control-oriented services.

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