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There has been a rebirth of interest in bringing community back into social work, but what does community social work mean when applied to practice? What are the opportunities in a landscape dominated by shrinking budgets with their attendant procedural and risk-obsessed assessment and care management models?
In this accessibly written book, Colin Turbett explores the erratic history of community social work. He goes on to demonstrate through contemporary examples how this preventative and relationship-based model can work for the individuals and communities served, and also provide an answer to the recruitment and retention issues adversely affecting mainstream settings.
“This text is timely and important. It is a significant contribution to reclaiming and reinstating a community focus and foundation within social work policy and practice. The challenge is to move community from the margins of pilots and projects and back into the mainstream of how social work develops and is delivered. Let’s go for it!” Ray Jones, Emeritus Professor of Social Work, Kingston University and St George’s, University of London
Colin Turbett is a retired social worker and active author based in the West of Scotland, with an interest in radical practice. He is an active member of the Common Weal think tank Care Reform Group, and the trade union Unison Scotland’s Social Work Issues Group. He has supported various local authority initiatives promoting community-based practice, including that of Fife Council.
Jane Pye is a Lecturer in Social Work at Lancaster University.
Introduction
1. A history of community social work in the UK
2. Bringing community into mainstream social work
3. Community social work for the present era
4. Policy drivers and relevant legislation in the UK
5. Scotland: Fife Council’s community social work team
6. Northern Ireland: Clarendon Medical Practice’s multi-disciplinary team – from ‘Healthy Connections’ to ‘Strengthened Connections’
7. Wales: examples of community orientation and community social work from Carmarthenshire and Torfaen
8. Community social work with a marginalised minority ethnic group: Gypsy and Traveller communities in England
9. Learning from contemporary experience: reflections on the examples from across the UK
10. Climate change and community social work
11. Community social work within social work education - Jane Pye
12. Conclusion: the future of community orientation and community social work