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Age and Social Work in a time of Uncertainty

Explore the evolution of social work strategies in response to aging populations, interprofessional collaboration, and community care challenges. Analyze the impact of policy shifts from Thatcher to Major era on social work practices. Reflect on critical theory, risk reduction, and the changing role of social workers in a shifting socio-political environment.

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Age and Social Work in a time of Uncertainty

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  1. Age and Social Work in a time of Uncertainty Simon Biggs biggss@unimelb.edu.au sbiggs@bsl.org.au

  2. CCETSW Times • Aug.1985 – Oct. 1989         Social Work Education Adviser: Mental Health, Inteprofessionality, Ageing • Oct.1989 – Oct. 1993           Coordinator of U.K. Programme: Community Care • Oct.1993 – Aug. 1994           Head of Development Department

  3. Photographic Evidence

  4. Confronting Ageing

  5. Publications • 1986 The Registered Homes Act 1984: Staff Training Issues, CCETSW Paper 24, p 27. • 1988 Older People: A Resource Directory for Trainers CCETSW, Pp 96. (with Hewerdine CW ) • 1989 Avoidable Risk: Supervision and Management inChild Care Abuse Cases. Trigger Video, CCETSW (with Ash E, And Mayhew R) • 1989 Confronting Ageing: A Group Work Manual for Helping Professionals. CCETSW, Pp 88. • 1989 Residential Social Work: Models of Good Practice, CCETSW, Pp 20. • 1989 Interprofessional Collaboration. CCETSW • 1990-1994 Community Care Database Bulletin (Quarterly).), CCETSW, approx Pp 100 per issue. (With Catlin S) • 1991 Assessment, Case Management and Inspection: A Practice Teaching Curriculum, CCETSW, P p 32. (with Weinstein J )

  6. Community Care Act • Compared to the Children Act • A mechanism for ideological system transformation rather than evidence based change • From a New role for social work to The role for social work • Consumer/User Involvement • CSP

  7. Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher • 28th Nov 1990 John Major • 28th Nov 1990 • May 2nd 1997

  8. From 1985- 1994 • Community Social Work • Public and NGO effectiveness & innovation • Social work as a therapeutic enterprise • Social work as advocacy • Critical theory on the role of social work • Case management • Private sector economy & innovation • Monitoring and managing • Social work as risk reduction • Critical theory and the rolled back state

  9. Ambivalent CCETSW • From (much misunderstood) tribune of social work and the disadvantaged • To implementing the Tory line • The shock absorber • Everybody’s relative ....But nobody’s baby

  10. Turning Points • Supping with the Department • It ain’t going away • From grudging colleague to quality inspector • To scapegoat ‘race commissars’ and the Daily Mail and ‘our social workers’.

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