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The Law and Social Work: Contemporary Issues for Practice

The Law and Social Work: Contemporary Issues for Practice

by JeremyRoche (Editor), Lesley - Anne Long (Editor)

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Synopsis

The law is central to social work, regulating practice, ensuring accountability and providing professionals with the power and authority to work effectively. Yet it does not, and cannot, provide an answer to the complex human questions that lie at the heart of the social work task and, like social work itself, it is subject to constant development and change. This major text aims to enrich thinking and debate about this crucial and challenging area, thereby encouraging reflective practice. It combines discussion of conceptual debates with a focus on key areas of law and practice and on the perspectives of both users and practitioners. It offers unique insights into the ways in which the law guides decision-making in social work and provides a framework for professional interventions. Divided into three sections, each of which sheds lights in different ways on the challenges and critical issues raised at the interface between social work and the law, the book covers such important subjects as: * the relationship between social work values and the law; * partnership with service users; * risk and professional judgement; * human rights; * child protection and family support; * elder abuse; * youth justice; * disability and special educations needs; * community care. In its breadth of coverage, focus, and clear, readable style, this is an essential text for all those undertaking social work education or looking to update and develop their knowledge of the law.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 304
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 29 Jan 2001
ISBN 10: 0333961269
ISBN 13: 9780333961261
Book Overview: JANE ALDGATE is Professor of Social Care at the School of Health and Social Welfare, The Open University ALISON BRAMMER is a Lecturer at the Department of Law at the University of Keele SUZY BRAYE is Reader in Social Work at Staffordshire University ISABELLE BRODIE is a Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Social Studies, University of Luton TANYA CALLMAN is a Barrister specialising in Education Law and Public Law in the Inner Temple, London SARAH CHAND is a Senior Practitioner with Warwickshire Probation ANDREW COOPER is Professor of Social Work at the Tavistock Clinic and University of East London JEREMY COOPER is Professor of Law and Director of the Disability Law Research Centre at Middlesex University NICKI CORNWELL writer on Therapeutic work to Statementing, Social Policy issues, Anti-Discriminatory Practice and Intercultural Social Work Practice ANN DALE-EMBERTON is a Tutor on the Diploma in Social Work Programme at Ruskin College, Oxford GUY DEHN is the founding Director of Public Concern at Work RATNA DUTT is Director of the Race Equality Unit PHILIP ELLS is a Solicitor at Aan Edwards & Co. London STEPHEN GILMORE LLB, LLM Barrister, is Senior Lecturer in the Law School at the University of East London DUNCAN GORE is currently the Training and Development Co-ordinator for the National Association of Child Contact Centres PETER HARRIS is a Barrister and was, until he retired in 1999, the Official Solicitor to the Supreme Court RUTH HAYMAN is studying at Peter Symonds' College, Winchester JEANETTE HENDERSON is a Lecturer in the School of Health and Social Welfare at The Open University RACHAEL HETHERINGTON is Director of the Centre for Comparative Social Work Studies at Brunel University LEONIE JORDAN is a Solicitor who has practised in local authorities, private practice and the voluntary sector DENZIL LUSH has been the Master of the Court of Protection since 1996 ANN McDONALD is at the School of Social Work and Psychosocial Studies at the University of East Anglia PAUL NIXON is Commissioning Officer (Family Group Conferences) for Hampshire County Council Social Services Department NIGEL PARTON is Professor in Child Care and Director of the Centre for Applied Childhood Studies at the University of Huddersfield MICHAEL PRESTON-SHOOT is Professor of Social Work and Social Care at Liverpool John Moores University JACKI PRITCHARD is an Independent Consultant, Trainer and Researcher BELINDA SCHWEHR is a Solicitor-advocate at the London law firm of Rowe and Maw ANNA SOUHAMI is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to do her PhD on 'Communication and Compliance in Youth Justice' at the Department of Criminology, Keele University JUDITH TIMMS OBE is a Chief Executive of the National Youth Advocacy Services and an Honorary Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Liverpool STUART VERNON is at the School of Law, University of East London HELEN WATSON is head of the multi-agency Youth Offending Service in Sunderland PENELOPE WELBOURNE is at the Department of Social Work and Social Policy, Plymouth University ANNE WORRALL is at the Department of Criminology, Keele University

Media Reviews
'...an important addition to the literature, in that whilst offering some useful summaries of relevant law, it also seeks to locate the law in a context of developing social policy and social issues, and to consider the dilemmas for social workers in implementing the legal framework.' - Roger Greeff, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Sheffield Hallam University, Social Work Education
Author Bio
LESLEY-ANN CULL and JEREMY ROCHE are both based in the School of Health and Social Welfare at The Open University. Both editors have written extensively on law and practice in relation to child and family law, and Jeremy Roche has co-edited two texts on working with young people, Youth in Society and Changing Experiences of Youth.