02329cam a2200301 i 4500 GSU 20260821140703.0 150415s2016 caua b 001 0 eng d 9781848606982 (paperback) LCC eng GSU GSU GSU HV40 POL Policy & social work practice / edited by Tony Evans & Frank Keating. Policy and social work practice Los Angeles : SAGE, ©2016. ix, 182 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Social Work and Policy Introduction<br />Discretion in the history and development of social work<br />Social Work Education and Training as a policy issue<br />Prevention and protection: the development of safeguarding in children's services<br />Children like ours? Policy and practice responses to children looked after<br />Personalisation<br />Mental capacity and social policy<br />Social welfare policy in racialised contexts<br />International social work: understanding social work within social policy systems<br />Domestic Violence: UK and Australian developments<br />Local policy in a global context: regimes of risk in mental health policy and practice -- the community treatment orders<br />Concluding thoughts: the interface between social policy and social work<br /> Editors Evans and Keating present readers with a collection of academic essays designed to allow for critical thinking regarding the relationship between policy and practice in social work. The editors argue that social policy is central to social work practice. The ten contributions that make up the text focus on discretion in history and the development of social work, social work education and training as a policy issue, the development of safeguarding in children's services, and many other related subjects. The editors are both faculty members of the University of London in the UK. Social policy. Social service. Social service Government policy. Evans, Antony. editor Keating, Frank. editor lcc BK HV40 HV POL 0 2926 2926 0 0 lcc 0 0 GC GSULE GSULE GEN 2026-04-29 BAI 05648 0 HV40.P635POL 50000006913 2026-08-17 16:26:12 2026-08-17 BK