The mixed and misleading messages within adult social care – implications for the social work role to assess need and plan support

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ID21498677
AutoresColin Slasberg (0000-0001-9483-6113, Independent Researcher and Consultant in Social Care, UK, autor correspondente), Peter Beresford (0000-0001-6052-033X, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK)
Ano2022
Volume36
Fascículo4
Páginas427-439
Data de publicação2022-10-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Social Work Practice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0265-0533 • E-ISSN: 1465-3885
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02650533.2022.2119947
OpenAlexW4307216921
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas8

Concern about the role social workers play in adult social care is long standing. Social workers, whose ethics commit them to supporting the empowerment of service users and to social justice, are required to work within a system that fails to secure either and is widely identified as in long-term crisis, despite a number of unsuccessful efforts to transform it. This article describes a detailed examination of the way one council operates. It reveals the gap between how the council says it does this and how this is experienced. It is suggested that the council, however, is not an exception. It follows the national template. The role social workers are required to play in this scenario is critical. They are key to delivery of the template. With little sign of resistance from the social work system itself, hopes for change rely on the emergence of grassroots and political initiatives that seeks a better future for social care

Commit · Empowerment · Grassroots · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Law · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Psychology · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology · Social Work