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Effective Writing for Social Work
Making a Difference
Drawing on both research and examples from practice, this book offers students an insight into the nature and challenges of writing in social work practice, enabling them to improve their writing skills.
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The Story of Baby P
Setting the Record Straight
This book is the first to tell what happened to 'Baby P', how the story was told by the media and its considerable impact on the child protection system in England. It makes a crucial contribution to the topic.
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Public Engagement and Social Science
This original edited collection explores the value of public engagement in a wider social science context. Its main themes range from the dialogic character of social science to the pragmatic responses to the managerial policies underpinning the restructuring of Higher Education.
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Re-imagining Child Protection
Towards Humane Social Work with Families
This book challenges the current child protection culture and calls for family-minded humane practice where children are understood as relational beings, parents are recognized as people with needs and hopes and families as carrying extraordinary capacities for care and protection.
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Moving on from Munro
Improving Children's Services
Four years after the publication of the influential Munro Report (2011) this important publication draws together a range of experts working in the field of child protection to critically examine what impact the reforms have had on multi agency child protection systems in this country, at both local and national level.
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Poverty and Inequality
An examination of the consequences of poverty and inequality and the challenge they pose to the engaged social work academic and practitioner.
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Personalisation
One of Britain's foremost social work academics, Peter Beresford, challenges the personalisation agenda and its consequences on service users.
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Adult Social Care
An historical overview of adult social care that locates the roots of the current crisis in the under-valuing of older people and adults with disabilities and in the marketisation of social care over the past two decades.
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Ethics
Sarah Banks emphasises the importance of reclaiming professional ethics for social work, and outlines a preliminary framework for a situated ethics of social justice.
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Children and Families
Leading researchers from across the globe look at the negative impact neoliberalism has had on children's services.
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Mental Health
Jeremy Weinstein draws on case studies and his own experience to develop a new model of practice in mental health social work.
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Inclusive Leadership in Social Work and Social Care
This critical and reflexive book looks closely at the pivotal but demanding role that leadership and management play in promoting social work and social care.
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