Social Work and policy practice: group reflection and policy inquiry.

Autor/in	Evans, Tony
Titel	Social Work and policy practice: group reflection and policy inquiry.
Quelle	In: Social work & society, 19 (2021) 2, S. 1-10 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (3) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1613-8953
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Reflexion (Phil); Demokratie; Neoliberalismus; Politik; Dienstleistung; Sozialarbeiter; Soziale Arbeit; Sozialwirtschaft; Gruppe (Soz)
Abstract	Social Work and policy practice are inextricable -and engaging with policy is a central element of social work education. However, the nature of the relationship of social work and policy practice has changed and shifted over time in various ways, depending on the focus of social work and the attitude of policy-makers (Evans and Keating 2015). At times, social workers, such as the pioneers of the welfare state, have worked to extend the nature and scope of public responsibility for welfare services. Following the establishment of the post-war welfare state, professionals such as social workers were central to realising policy in action and developing new services from the ground up in recognition of growing or unmet social need. With the pivot to neoliberalism in the 1980s, policy-makers became antagonistic to overt professional policy practice, although they relied on professionals making policy work on the ground to deliver services. But more recently, neoliberalism has shifted the emphasis from control and direction to a more entrepreneurial phase, encouragingservice development amongst front-line staff to bridge the gap between inadequate resources and service delivery (Evans 2018).
Erfasst von	Deutsches Zentralinstitut für soziale Fragen, Berlin
Update	2022/3