Policy Press
10 Social work with offenders
Abstract
It is often assumed that child care legislation is a response to scandals and inquiries from the 1948 Children Act to the Children Act 2004. This chapter looks in detail at the preparatory work preceding legislation and demonstrates that the impact of scandals has been greater on securing parliamentary time than it has in shaping legislation. The impact has been greatest on social work practice. Attention and activity have been skewed away from direct work to provide assistance and help towards risk assessment and risk management. There has been a consequent emphasis on the monitoring and surveillance of families and individuals. This shift is true in mental health as well as child care. It is timely to consider whether this shift in practice has made children and families safer.
Abstract
It is often assumed that child care legislation is a response to scandals and inquiries from the 1948 Children Act to the Children Act 2004. This chapter looks in detail at the preparatory work preceding legislation and demonstrates that the impact of scandals has been greater on securing parliamentary time than it has in shaping legislation. The impact has been greatest on social work practice. Attention and activity have been skewed away from direct work to provide assistance and help towards risk assessment and risk management. There has been a consequent emphasis on the monitoring and surveillance of families and individuals. This shift is true in mental health as well as child care. It is timely to consider whether this shift in practice has made children and families safer.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Terry Bamford vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Notes on contributors x
- List of abbreviations xiv
- Introduction 1
- Social work in 1970 5
- Social services departments: success or failure? 21
- Regulation and inspection of social work: costly distraction or stimulus to improve? 37
- Continuity and change in the knowledge base for social work 59
- Social work education: learning from the past? 77
- Practising social work 97
- Looking back, looking forward: two personal views 115
- From clients as fellow citizens to service users as co-producers of social work 141
- The 1989 England and Wales Children Act: the high-water mark of progressive reform? 157
- Social work with offenders 173
- The impact of scandal and inquiries on social work and the personal social services 191
- British social work: international context and perspectives 213
- Afterword 229
- Index 233
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Terry Bamford vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Notes on contributors x
- List of abbreviations xiv
- Introduction 1
- Social work in 1970 5
- Social services departments: success or failure? 21
- Regulation and inspection of social work: costly distraction or stimulus to improve? 37
- Continuity and change in the knowledge base for social work 59
- Social work education: learning from the past? 77
- Practising social work 97
- Looking back, looking forward: two personal views 115
- From clients as fellow citizens to service users as co-producers of social work 141
- The 1989 England and Wales Children Act: the high-water mark of progressive reform? 157
- Social work with offenders 173
- The impact of scandal and inquiries on social work and the personal social services 191
- British social work: international context and perspectives 213
- Afterword 229
- Index 233
