Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of figures and tables x
4. List of abbreviations xi
5. Notes on contributors xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Framing social innovation and social work
8. Social work and social innovation: how the twain can meet 11
9. How to change our neighbourhoods, regions and the world: using symptoms, systems and transformation as a framework for social innovation and social work 24
10. Social work, social innovation, discretion and creativity: day-to-day innovation of practice 41
11. Potential for social innovation in social work: applying the capability approach 54
12. Examples of social innovations in social work across Europe
13. Co-creation and co-production of social services: social innovation in practice
14. The art of co-creation: service innovation in Europe 71
15. Promoting social services innovation: regional and local examples from across Europe 84
16. Co-creation in action: lessons from the CoSIE project 98
17. Social innovation and service users’ involvement: enhancing the knowledge of social work 112
18. Moderating processes of social innovation: insights from a case study on labour market activation 124
19. Education and learning: social innovation in social work education and learning
20. Regional learning networks in the social welfare domain: drivers of social innovation in social work 139
21. Putting learning communities into practice: innovation of social work education 150
22. Learning from innovation processes: introducing Easy Language in adult protection services 164
23. Community work, community-led innovation and collective action
24. The rediscovery of community: community development as social innovation 179
25. Climate change from a green social work perspective: responding to a constantly evolving crisis challenging social work practice 193
26. Co-creation of nature-based solutions: guidelines for citizen engagement 208
27. Innovating social work practices to better address homelessness: participatory action research with community services in Italy 223
28. Challenging the power status quo: paradoxes in grassroots social innovation 236
29. Social entrepreneurship: inclusive and regenerative models of social business and innovation for sustainable impact
30. Social entrepreneurship as social innovation: what about social work? 251
31. The growing rhetoric of entrepreneurship in times of crisis: future challenges of social work in the case of Portugal 263
32. Unlimited incubators for belonging, cohesion and impact: nurturing ‘what is already there’ 276
33. Developing the innovative power of social work: synthesis and future directions 289
34. Index 298