There is a rather interesting piece by
Jonathan Parker, director of the Centre of Social Work & Social Policy at Bournemouth University, over at Huffington Post this morning.
In it he says:
"Social
work has constructed an edifice of anti-oppressive practice sometimes
decorated with the inanities of political correctness that hampers its
position to mediate and negotiate a pathway that re-engages individuals
with their society. By a misplaced refusal to judge behaviours and
actions, or to remove services, in common language 'to punish', those
who traverse, often at great cost to others, the rules of engagement
with that society. What the riots indicate for social work is that
personal behaviour and actions are not to be equally valued if a society
is to function and serve its members appropriately. Perhaps for too
long social workers have been content to stand outside of the policies
and workings of society when it suits, whilst still being employed, in
the main, by local government."
Do you think the
riots indicate that social workers are too disconnected from society and
that they should perhaps be a little more value based in their
decisions?I'm not sure I do. Perhaps it is more simple than
that, maybe there just aren't enough of them or funding for the support
they hope to provide.
Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-work-blog/2011/08/there-is-a-rather-interesting.html
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