By Lester Parrott
Lester Parrott makes use of social coverage research to enquire the present coverage conflicts and dilemmas for social paintings scholars and execs. He adopts an anti-discriminatory method of coverage and perform. Social paintings and Social Care outlines the significance of social coverage for social paintings, taking care to explain the strong ideological forces that underpin present practices. the writer considers the significance of anti-discriminatory perform and its hyperlinks with social coverage research, in addition to the way forward for social paintings and social care inside altered social and political contexts. The textual content incorporates a thesaurus and beneficial web site addresses for extra research.
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Social work and equal opportunities The recognition that race and gender divisions pervade British society found its official expression in the development of social legislation in the 1960s and 1970s. The legislation concerning gender (the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (SDA 1975)) and race (the Race Relations Act 1976 (RRA 1976)) reflected that formally, Britain ought to develop a society based on equality of opportunity. The individual and institutional barriers erected to deny women and black people access to employment and income was seen as denying the social right to participate as an equal member of British society.
Capitalism) which excludes them permanently whether in work or out of it. Social workers may also feel that this emphasis upon work also excludes many service users who are unable at this present time to achieve social inclusion through work and require immediate improvements in their current living conditions and capacities to enjoy a valued life. Social exclusion as the product of increased inequality of income and wealth requires social workers to practise in a way that gives voice to the excluded by enabling an active citizenship.
By the late 1980s the Conservative government was ready to restructure the PSS; the changes envisaged were a reflection of their own ideological commitments and the increasing criticism by professional bodies and the public as to the inadequacy of community care services (see Chapter 5). 39 40 Ideology and the rise of social work Conclusion This chapter has charted the development of the PSS in relation to two influential ideologies, the New Right and Fabianism. Emphasizing the importance of the New Right in developing a tentative approach to social work in the early 1980s has set the scene for the more radical transformation of the PSS considered in later chapters.
