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Service users and practitioners reunited
— the key component for social work reform | | Author(s) | Peter Beresford, Suzy Croft |
| Journal title | British Journal of Social Work, vol 34, no 1, January 2004 |
| Pages | pp 53-68 |
| Source | http://bjsw.oupjournals.org |
| Keywords | Consumer ; Communication ; Social workers ; Social work ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | The pressures towards both regulatory and liberatory social work are explored in this article. A range of factors operating to push social work in each direction are identified. The article discusses the key significance for more liberatory social work of the roles and engagement of social work practitioners and service users. The authors highlight four key characteristics in the current political and policy context of social work: ambiguity, uncertainty, complexity and contradiction. They argue that unless social work practitioners gain more support to play a central role in its construction and develop much closer links and alliances with service users and their organisations and movements, then social work is unlikely to develop a more emancipatory role. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040301220 A |
| Classmark | WY: U: QR: IG: TM2 |
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