Modernising social work: Critical considerations

New Labour's modernisation agenda has produced an avalanche of change that has posed formidable challenges for everyone involved in social work, whether as service users, practitioners or managers.

"Modernising Social Work" provides a radical appraisal of the far—reaching changes in their theoretical, historical and policy contexts. The book is organised into three sections that consider: the inter—relationship of modernisation and managerialism, modernisation's impact on service users and...