Paul Stepney
Biographic Data
| ID | 1264154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Stepney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Stepney |
| SIGNATURE | STEPNEY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wolverhampton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Isn’t It Time to Start “Theorising Practice” Rather than Trying to “Apply Theory to Practice”
The idea of “applying theory to practice” is one of the core beliefs at the heart of social work education. It now informs an extensive literature and underpins teaching on theory and methods courses in university qualifying programs in the UK, much of Europe, Australasia and North America. It implies that we start with theory and then fit theoretical concepts and knowledge into practice situations. However, students and early career practitioner…
The Demise of Accountability in Public Services
This chapter considers the sepsis as a focal point to examine the demise of accountability in public services. The problem of assessing the impact of contracting out on accountability can also be linked to the rise of managerialism, or what is referred to as New Public Management (NPM). The theoretical insights from Michel Foucault and Jurgen Habermas are directly relevant and help to reveal the link between the loss of accountability and the hid…
Prevention in social work
The concept of ‘prevention’ presents many enduring dilemmas for social work. There have been noteworthy attempts to develop policies and practices that can enable ‘prevention’, but these have been frustrated by uncertainty about what constitutes prevention, and how to manage the tension between prevention and responding to crisis. There have been numerous successful prevention projects in the UK, the United States and Europe, but hitherto few of …
Towards an integrated model of practice evaluation balancing accountability, critical knowledge and developmental perspectives
Against a backdrop of economic globalisation, where welfare practitioners find themselves caught between modernising policy reform and demanding practice realities, there is an urgent need to rethink the relationship between research, evaluation and professional practice. In this article three perspectives concerned with accountability, critical knowledge production and development will be examined as a basis for understanding the different metho…
English Social Work at the Crossroads
At the present time, social work in England finds itself at the crossroads. Against a backdrop of economic globalisation, it has been caught up in New Labour's modernising policy discourse that has recast social justice in terms of opportunity, inclusion, and "choice". More recently, this has been extended by the introduction of a "respect agenda", a reaction to the loss of community cohesion and the rise in antisocial behaviour. In the present a…
Managerial audit and community mental health
In many European welfare states the reform of mental health services has been accompanied by the implementation of new forms of governance, including the introduction of managerial audit systems. While such systems have been developed for ‘good causes’, such as quality assurance, financial management and monitoring staff performance, they may simultaneously produce diverse and contradictory effects on practice. The aim of this article is to exami…
Mission Impossible? Critical Practice in Social Work
In recent years, the capacity of social work to be a force for progressive policy and social change has been significantly eroded. Social work in the UK has been re-branded and reshaped within New Labour’s modernized welfare state, only to become politically compromised and compliant: ‘the dog that didn’t bark’ even when its soul appeared to be stripped out. This article offers a response to this predicament informed by a structural modernist ana…
Hospital discharge and the citizenship rights of older people
The authors are both experienced social workers and teachers in the field of community care. They draw on their UK and European experiences as well as the growing body of research on hospital discharges of older people to illustrate how citizenship rights and social justice cannot be upheld without ethical good practice in this field. Community Care in the UK now contains in-built tensions and potential conflicts between health and social service…
Poverty, exclusion and New Labour
With the publication of the Green Paper A New Contract for Welfare the government has set out its analysis of the links between poverty, exclusion and the benefit system. This article traces New Labour thinking on these topics to popular discourses on poverty that constitute a new politics of welfare. In this, Tony Blair has been influenced by the programmes of the Clinton administration designed ‘to end welfare as we know it’. Using the Institut…
The Children Act 1989 - protection or persecution? Family support and child protection in the 1990s
The 1989 Children Act emerged at a time of considerable tension in the relationships between the state, the 'family' and the individual
Mission Impossible? Critical Practice in Social Work
In recent years, the capacity of social work to be a force for progressive policy and social change has been significantly eroded. Social work in the UK has been re-branded and reshaped within New Labour’s modernized welfare state, only to become politically compromised and compliant: ‘the dog that didn’t bark’ even when its soul appeared to be stripped out. This article offers a response to this predicament informed by a structural modernist ana…
Managerial audit and community mental health
In many European welfare states the reform of mental health services has been accompanied by the implementation of new forms of governance, including the introduction of managerial audit systems. While such systems have been developed for ‘good causes’, such as quality assurance, financial management and monitoring staff performance, they may simultaneously produce diverse and contradictory effects on practice. The aim of this article is to exami…
Poverty, exclusion and New Labour
With the publication of the Green Paper A New Contract for Welfare the government has set out its analysis of the links between poverty, exclusion and the benefit system. This article traces New Labour thinking on these topics to popular discourses on poverty that constitute a new politics of welfare. In this, Tony Blair has been influenced by the programmes of the Clinton administration designed ‘to end welfare as we know it’. Using the Institut…
Isn’t It Time to Start “Theorising Practice” Rather than Trying to “Apply Theory to Practice”
The idea of “applying theory to practice” is one of the core beliefs at the heart of social work education. It now informs an extensive literature and underpins teaching on theory and methods courses in university qualifying programs in the UK, much of Europe, Australasia and North America. It implies that we start with theory and then fit theoretical concepts and knowledge into practice situations. However, students and early career practitioner…
English Social Work at the Crossroads
At the present time, social work in England finds itself at the crossroads. Against a backdrop of economic globalisation, it has been caught up in New Labour's modernising policy discourse that has recast social justice in terms of opportunity, inclusion, and "choice". More recently, this has been extended by the introduction of a "respect agenda", a reaction to the loss of community cohesion and the rise in antisocial behaviour. In the present a…
Hospital discharge and the citizenship rights of older people
The authors are both experienced social workers and teachers in the field of community care. They draw on their UK and European experiences as well as the growing body of research on hospital discharges of older people to illustrate how citizenship rights and social justice cannot be upheld without ethical good practice in this field. Community Care in the UK now contains in-built tensions and potential conflicts between health and social service…
The Children Act 1989 - protection or persecution? Family support and child protection in the 1990s
The 1989 Children Act emerged at a time of considerable tension in the relationships between the state, the 'family' and the individual
Poverty, exclusion and New Labour
With the publication of the Green Paper A New Contract for Welfare the government has set out its analysis of the links between poverty, exclusion and the benefit system. This article traces New Labour thinking on these topics to popular discourses on poverty that constitute a new politics of welfare. In this, Tony Blair has been influenced by the programmes of the Clinton administration designed ‘to end welfare as we know it’. Using the Institut…
Hospital discharge and the citizenship rights of older people
The authors are both experienced social workers and teachers in the field of community care. They draw on their UK and European experiences as well as the growing body of research on hospital discharges of older people to illustrate how citizenship rights and social justice cannot be upheld without ethical good practice in this field. Community Care in the UK now contains in-built tensions and potential conflicts between health and social service…
Mission Impossible? Critical Practice in Social Work
In recent years, the capacity of social work to be a force for progressive policy and social change has been significantly eroded. Social work in the UK has been re-branded and reshaped within New Labour’s modernized welfare state, only to become politically compromised and compliant: ‘the dog that didn’t bark’ even when its soul appeared to be stripped out. This article offers a response to this predicament informed by a structural modernist ana…
Managerial audit and community mental health
In many European welfare states the reform of mental health services has been accompanied by the implementation of new forms of governance, including the introduction of managerial audit systems. While such systems have been developed for ‘good causes’, such as quality assurance, financial management and monitoring staff performance, they may simultaneously produce diverse and contradictory effects on practice. The aim of this article is to exami…
English Social Work at the Crossroads
At the present time, social work in England finds itself at the crossroads. Against a backdrop of economic globalisation, it has been caught up in New Labour's modernising policy discourse that has recast social justice in terms of opportunity, inclusion, and "choice". More recently, this has been extended by the introduction of a "respect agenda", a reaction to the loss of community cohesion and the rise in antisocial behaviour. In the present a…
Towards an integrated model of practice evaluation balancing accountability, critical knowledge and developmental perspectives
Against a backdrop of economic globalisation, where welfare practitioners find themselves caught between modernising policy reform and demanding practice realities, there is an urgent need to rethink the relationship between research, evaluation and professional practice. In this article three perspectives concerned with accountability, critical knowledge production and development will be examined as a basis for understanding the different metho…
Prevention in social work
The concept of ‘prevention’ presents many enduring dilemmas for social work. There have been noteworthy attempts to develop policies and practices that can enable ‘prevention’, but these have been frustrated by uncertainty about what constitutes prevention, and how to manage the tension between prevention and responding to crisis. There have been numerous successful prevention projects in the UK, the United States and Europe, but hitherto few of …
The Demise of Accountability in Public Services
This chapter considers the sepsis as a focal point to examine the demise of accountability in public services. The problem of assessing the impact of contracting out on accountability can also be linked to the rise of managerialism, or what is referred to as New Public Management (NPM). The theoretical insights from Michel Foucault and Jurgen Habermas are directly relevant and help to reveal the link between the loss of accountability and the hid…
Isn’t It Time to Start “Theorising Practice” Rather than Trying to “Apply Theory to Practice”
The idea of “applying theory to practice” is one of the core beliefs at the heart of social work education. It now informs an extensive literature and underpins teaching on theory and methods courses in university qualifying programs in the UK, much of Europe, Australasia and North America. It implies that we start with theory and then fit theoretical concepts and knowledge into practice situations. However, students and early career practitioner…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (5 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Social Work (4 works) · Engineering (3 works)