Has social work lost its political edge? Participants in a roles and tasks project in Northern Ireland think so.

A report published by the Northern Ireland Social Care Council found that social work is less political and needs to reaffirm its role as an influencer of societal change.

Not that I can draw from memory, but I gather that the profession, and particularly the British Association of Social Workers, commanded a much stronger influence in social work's heyday of the 1970s.

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