Book Review: People Before Profit: The Future of Social Care in Scotland by Social Work Action Network (SWAN) & the Jimmy Reid Foundation

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 671-672
Author(s):  
Natalia Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Care ◽  
The Future ◽  
Action Network

Book Review: The Future of Social Work Research

1981 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 381-382
Author(s):  
Irwin Epstein
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals Rethinking child protection and adoption: achieving social justice in practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-132
Author(s):  
Clarissa Stevens ◽  
Fran Proctor ◽  
Barbara Rishworth ◽  
Amanda Boorman ◽  
Abbie Unwin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Action Network ◽  
Vantage Points ◽  
Radical Transformation

This article presents contributions made at the ‘Rethinking Fostering and Adoption: Achieving Social Justice in Practice’ plenary at the 2019 Social Work Action Network conference. The contributors write from a variety of vantage points but share the view that the current child protection and adoption system in England requires radical transformation in order to become more humane, supportive and socially just. The article begins with an outline of the ‘investigative turn’ in children’s services and key findings from the adoption enquiry of the British Association of Social Workers. It goes on to argue, from lived experience perspectives, that we urgently need a new kind of children’s social care system that foregrounds support, rights, social inclusion and trauma prevention.

Social work in the face of collapse

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-254
Author(s):  
David John Kenkel
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Care Provision ◽  
State Control ◽  
Moral Integrity ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Societal Collapse ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face

This article starts from the position that while generally unacknowledged in the mainstream academic literature, some degree of ecological and societal collapse is inevitable over the next few decades. Hence, social work has a responsibility to steward the future of our profession to support solidarity under what seems likely to be a situation of fracturing state capacity for social care provision in what will likely remain a neoliberally informed global hegemony. The argument is made that the activist ethos of community development will be essential to social work’s moral integrity in the future in resisting becoming an oppressive instrument of state control in a degrading environmental context.

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