Social Work in a Changing Scotland by Viviene E. Cree Mark Smith

Author:Viviene E. Cree, Mark Smith [Viviene E. Cree, Mark Smith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781138295025
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2018-02-13T00:00:00+00:00

Though there exists considerable consensus around the review conclusions, questions remain regarding if, and how, they can be taken forward. For some, the conclusions and related recommendations are over-ambitious. The idea that we should try to crack it now, at a point when university and practice providers face ‘significant challenges’ (Accounts Commission, 2016) is, for some, ill-timed. For others, the review conclusions are not ambitious enough. In a political and fiscal climate where it can appear that something has to be found broken to justify resources to fix it, the review’s language of improvement and enhancement may not quite ‘cut it’ in the corridors of power and fiscal competition. Most significantly, while the review work has made important collaborative advances, there remain many professionals who sit at the margins of this debate and are yet to be persuaded of the centrality of professional learning or of their role in contributing to that.

And so social work education in Scotland today finds itself exactly where it always has: positioned persistently at the crossroads between social work’s reforming ideals and ambitions and the pressures and realities of a professional practice subject to and constrained by market forces. The question remains: how to educate for a profession and practice positioned persistently at the crossroads?

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