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A history of the personal social services in England: feast, famine and the future
- Author:
- JONES Ray
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- vi, 494
- Place of publication:
- London
This book provides a detailed narrative and analysis of the 50-year development of the personal social services in England, located throughout the changing ideological, political and relevant professional contexts of the period. Drawing on the experience and recollections of key players who were active during major moments, it constitutes a significant addition to the social work and social policy literature, synthesising important and often original evidence, and some provocative interpretations. The book speaks to crucial on-going issues and contentious current debates, such as the place of bureaucratic management structures in ‘practices with people' generally, and social work specifically. It will be of interest to student and qualified social workers, social policy students and researchers, and policy makers, as well as those with a general interest in the history and trajectory of current issues facing social work and social care in England. (Edited publisher abstract)
1970-2020: a fifty year history the personal social services and social work in England and across the United Kingdom
- Author:
- JONES Ray
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work and Social Sciences Review, 21(3), 2020, pp.8-44.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
2020 is the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of a unified profession of social work across the United Kingdom and of the creation of integrated personal social services in each of the four UK countries. This paper reflects on the genesis of these changes, tracks developments over the past fifty years, and comments on the current state of social work and the personal social services in England and throughout the UK. (Publisher abstract)
Claims of 'revolution' grossly exaggerated
- Author:
- JONES Ray
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, December 2019/January 2020, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
The Dutch Buurtsorg community-led model is being held up as blue print for children's social work in the UK, creating teams of stable social workers embedded within communities. The author looks back at the social work model of area community teams, prevalent in the 1970s and 1980s, which also involved building relationships, undertaking community development and getting to know communities. (Edited publisher abstract)
In whose interest? The privatisation of child protection and social work
- Author:
- JONES Ray
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 320
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
In England the government continues to open up child protection and social work to a commercial market place. This book looks at the social cost of privatising public services and it details the failures of previous privatisations which have led to the deterioration of services for the public. It shows how this trend threatens the safety and wellbeing of vulnerable children and disabled adults. The book has four parts: Part 1: The recent history - looks at moves to privatise children's social servcies and social work and the role of politics; Part 2: The long haul - relfects on the legacies left by past governments under Thatcher, Blair, Cameron and the Coalition and the Conservatives; Part 3: The impact of privatisation - looks at the consequences of privitasation for public services and the welfare state; and Part 4: Changing course - offers an alternative alternative journey for social work and children's social services. (Edited publisher abstract)
Reclaiming social work with adults
- Author:
- JONES Ray
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, May 2017, pp.17-18.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
The author looks at the role of adult social work and the increasing contribution it can make at a time of an ageing population.
The conundrum of neglect
- Author:
- JONES Ray
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, April 2016, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Child neglect and emotional abuse can often be more difficult to tackle than physical and sexual abuse. The author outlines three types of neglect and what can be done to address each in terms of assessment, case planning and action. Types of neglect discussed are: passive neglect, whether parents are often exhausted or depressed; chaotic neglect, where parents may have poor parenting skills or be centred on their own needs; and active neglect, which is deliberate and intentional. (Edited publisher abstract)
The marketisation and privatisation of children’s social work and child protection: integration or fragmentation?
- Author:
- JONES Ray
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 23(6), 2015, pp.364 -375.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: Whilst the government makes progress on opening up children’s social work, including child protection, to the market place and to private and commercial businesses, there has been little comment on the strengths and weaknesses, and the opportunities and threats, of the political policy direction being pursued. In particular, what are the implications for the integration and consolidation of services, which had been the “joined-up” services policy ambition of previous governments and, for health and social care services, remain the declared ambition of the current government? The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach: This paper considers the potential impact on children’s social work services and child protection from the government’s policy and regulatory changes which open up all children’s social work to the market place. Findings: Particular concerns are noted that the changes now being allowed and promoted will lead to greater fragmentation rather than integration. Originality/value: This is the first paper to reflect on the government’s push and preference for the unregulated market place it created in 2014 for children’s social work, including child protection. (Publisher abstract)
The end game: the marketisation and privatisation of children’s social work and child protection
- Author:
- JONES Ray
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 35(4), 2015, pp.447-469.
- Publisher:
- Sage
There is a long history of voluntary and other organisations, along with the state, providing social services for children in England. But crucial assessments and decision-making about the care and protection of children have been undertaken by local authorities within the context of democratic accountability and transparency. This is changing. The government is opening up children’s social work services, including child protection investigations and assessments, decisions about initiating care proceedings in the courts to have children removed from their families, and decisions where children should then live, to the market and to the private sector with companies such as G4S and Serco expanding into children’s social services. Nowhere else in the world are profit-driven companies given these powers. This article traces how this radical change is moving forward at pace. (Publisher abstract)
Child protection, social work and the media: doing as well as being done to
- Author:
- JONES Ray
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 29(2), 2012, pp.83-94.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
2008-2010 was an exceptional time of considerable media coverage of child protection and social work in the United Kingdom, much of it negative, and some of it personally targeted on individual social workers. The cluster of media stories included the deaths of ‘Baby Peter Connelly’ and Khyra Ishaq, the kidnapping of Shannon Matthews, and the extreme assaults on two young boys in Edlington, Doncaster. Based on the author’s personal engagement with the media, this article illustrates that the clustering of stories also gave the opportunity to seek to shape the media and editorial coverage and to explain the realities and complexities of seeking to protect children and of social work. (Edited publisher abstract)
The story of Baby P: setting the record straight
- Author:
- JONES Ray
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 304
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
In England in 2007 Peter Connelly, a 17 month old boy, known initially in the media reporting as 'Baby P', died following terrible neglect and abuse. Fifteen months later, his mother, her boyfriend and the boyfriend's brother were sent to prison. This book draws together evidence to explain what what happened to 'Baby P', how the story was told and became focused on the social workers, its threatening consequences for those who work to protect children, and its considerable impact on the child protection system in England. (Edited publisher abstract)