Social Work and the Making of Social Policy

✍ Scribed by Ute Klammer (editor); Simone Leiber (editor); Sigrid Leitner (editor)

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 258
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Bringing together international case studies, this book offers theoretical and empirical insights into the interaction between social work and social policy. Moving beyond existing studies on policy practice, the book employs the policy cycle as a core analytical frame and focuses on the influence of social work(ers) in the problem definition, agenda setting, policy formulation and implementation of social policy. Twenty-three contributors offer examples of policy making from seven different countries and demonstrate how social work practitioners can become political actors, while also encouraging policy makers to become aware of the potential of social work for the social policy-making process.

✦ Table of Contents

Front cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: social work and the making of social policy
Part I: Social work, problem definition and agenda setting
2. Social work as policy innovator: challenges and possibilities in the UK
3. Social work, problem definition and policy change in the US: the case of sex-trafficked youth
4. The voices of Italian social workers: from a pilot anti-poverty intervention to a national policy
Part II: Social work interests in policy formulation and decision making
5. Social reform in the US: lessons from the Progressive Era
6. Social work academia and social policy in Israel: on the role of social work academics in the policy process
7. Social workers’ collective policy practice in times of austerity: Italy and Spain compared
8. Social policy and welfare movements ‘from below’: the Social Work Action Network (SWAN) in the UK
Part III: Social work and implementation
9. Policy work and the ethics of obedience and resistance: perspectives from Britain and beyond
10. Systemic barriers to effective implementation of child protection reform in Israel
11. Social workers implementing social assistance in Spain: reshaping poverty in a familialistic welfare state
12. Layering, social risks and manufactured uncertainties in social work in Poland
13. ‘A little more humanity’: placement officers in Germany between social work and social policy
14. Conclusion: social work and the making of social policy – lessons learned
Index
Back cover