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The role of the social worker in tackling violent extremism
- Authors:
- STANLEY Tony, et al
- Publisher:
- Association of Directors of Children's Services
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 4
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
A guidance note providing information and advice for social workers who have to deal with service users who become involved in violent extremism. It highlights the contribution social work can make in this area due to the professions emphasis on social justice and rights-based approaches and expertise in working with vulnerable people and disaffected communities. The note provides a brief overview of the legal framework; provides three short case studies with accompanying reflective practice questions and discusses the importance of rigorous assessment and respectful intervention. It also briefly outlines how the following skills can help in tackling violent extremism: a social justice and human rights based approach, a community based approach and skills in multi-agency working. (Edited publisher abstract)
A risky time for Muslim families: professionalised counter-radicalisation networks
- Authors:
- STANLEY Tony, GURU Surinder, COPPOCK Vicki
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Practice, 31(4), 2017, pp.477-490.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
In July 2015, a new statutory duty was sanctioned in the UK for a range of professional practitioners, including social workers, to pay ‘due regard to preventing terrorism’. The duty has contributed to a shifting of social work practice and decision-making from the fields of advocacy and promotion of ethics, social justice and human rights, towards risk-work more analogous to that of the security services. Social workers are caught up in pre-emptive risk work, operating in a pre-crime space. Further, an ‘ethic of silence’ has emerged because social workers are not speaking back or challenging the duty due to the ensnared nature of the dominant securitised discourses, which prevent counter-discourses from emerging. Utilising an autoethnographic approach, this paper shows that the new duty is reorganising and rearranging new networks of practitioners with securitisation a dominant feature, and this significantly affects practice decisions. Latour’s actor network theory (ANT) helps us to examine the ethical and practical implications for decision-making. Shifting notions of ethics, rights and as yet unforeseen consequences of PREVENT concern us. This being said, humane and socially just social work practice within the duty is possible; strengths-based risk practices provide practical and ethical ways forward and these are discussed.