Welcome to my website, not an elaborate affair, but intended to be helpful to those who want to understand more of the development of social work in the UK since the 1950s and the context in which this development has taken place. Why now? I believe the “social work project”, as I like to call it, is under great strain at the present time, but there are great opportunities. As I am coming to the end of my career and this issue has meant a great deal to me over many years, I want to share some of my thoughts with those who are similarly concerned.

Published works are listed below. Some of the articles/chapters, mostly pre-1980, are available for download (as a PDF) directly from this page, please look for text that appears in blue for this facility.

Books:

2007    Neglected Children and their Families , 2nd Ed. Blackwell. (1st ed. 1998)

1998    Ed. & contributor: Child Welfare in the United Kingdom. Blackwell

1993    Community Care & Empowerment . (With Parsloe). Joseph Rowntree Foundation/Community Care

1989    Ed Child Abuse: public policy/professional practice . Wheatsheaf. Two Chapters: ‘Reflections on Social Work Practice.’ Chap. 7 p. 145 – 172 and ‘Multi-disciplinary work In Child Protection’. Chap. 8 p. 173 – 203.

1988    Age and Vulnerability: a guide to better care. Edward Arnold

1983    Policies programmes and disadvantage. (With Fuller). Heinemann.

1981    Specialisation in Social Service Teams. Allen & Unwin

1981    The Notion of Expertise.pdf, pp 48 - 59, In Specialisation in Social Services Teams, Stevenson and Hill. George Allen and Unwin

1978    Social Service Teams: the practitioner’s view. Parsloe, Stevenson et al. HMSO

1972    Claimant or Client? A social worker’s view of the Supplementary Benefits Commission. Allen & Unwin

1964/1977    Someone Else’s Child: a book for foster parents. Routledge Kegan Paul. 2nd Ed. Revised.

Selected articles/chapters from 1960:

2007    In Ed. Paoletti. Family Care Giving for Older Disabled People. Relational and institutional issues. With Jeary. Nova Science Pubs. New York.

2008    In Journal of Adult Protection. Neglect as an aspect of the mistreatment of elderly people. Vol.10.1. Feb.pp 24-35

2007    In Eds James and Wilson. Child Protection Handbook. ‘Where are we now’ – concluding chapter. Balliere Tindall.

2006    In Ed. Bower. Thinking Under Fire. Foreword. Routledge

2005    In Eds. Taylor and Daniel. Practice Issues for Health and Social Care. Working Together in Cases of Neglect. Jessica Kingsley

2005    Editor. Special Ed. Child and Family Social Work. Vol. 10. Issue 3. Blackwell

2005    In British Journal of Social Work. Genericism and Specialisation: the story since 1970. Vol. 35. No. 5. Oxford University Press

2003    In Eds Lymbery and Butler. Social Work Ideals and Practice Realities. The Future of Social Work. Palgrave MacMillan.

2000    In Ed. Charles, M and Hendry, E Eds. Training together to safeguard children. Chap. The mandate for inter-agency and interprofessional work and training. Pp. 5-13. 

1999    Elder Protection in Residential Care, What can we learn from child protection.pdf

1999    Old People at Risk.pdf pp 210 - 216, In: Risk Assessment in Social Care and Social Work, ed. Parsloe P., JKP

1999    Growing Older - What is it like?.pdf

1999    The Protection of Vulnerable People from Abuse - Moral and Professional Dilemmas.pdf

1998    In Child and Family Social Work. It was more difficult than we thought. Vol. 3. Issue 3. Blackwell.

1997    30 years of services to children in need of care - What have we learnt for tomorrow?

1996    Elder Protection in the Community - What can we Learn from Child Protection?

1996    (In Hebrew): 3 lectures on Social Welfare, delivered in Jerusalem: published by Hebrew University.

1996    In: Theory, Policy and Practice of Community Care (In Mandarin), ‘Community Care: concepts and theories’. pp 20 – 28. University of Peking, Beijing.

1996    In Child & Family Social Work, ‘Emotional Abuse and Neglect: a time for reappraisal’. Vol. 1. Issue 1. Jan pp. 13-18 Blackwells.

1996    In: The Abuse of Care, edited by Clough, R. ‘Concluding Reflections’. pp 172 – 178. London: Whiting and Birch.

1996    Old People's Empowerment.pdf pp 81 - 92, In, Pathways to Empowerment, ed. Parsloe P. Venture Press

1995    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Family and Community Care. ‘The Problems of Vulnerable Children and Adults’ pp 27-30. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Council of Social Services.

1995    In Ed. James A. and Wilson K. Handbook of Child Protection. ‘Case Conferences in Child Protection’, pp 227 – 241. Bailliere Tyndale.

1995    ‘What is the future for social work?’ In Social Work in the mid-1990s – caring with confidence. 11 pages, BASW.

1994    Child Protection: Where Now for Inter-professional Work?.pdf In Going Inter-professional, Working Together for Health and Welfare, pp 123 – 135. Routledge

1994    In Ed. Leatheard A.  Going Inter-Professional. Working Together for Health & Welfare. ‘Child Protection: where now for interprofessional work’ pp 123 – 136. Routledge.

1994    Social Work in the 1990s: Empowerment, Fact or Fiction?.pdf pp 170 - 189 In Social Policy Review. SPA

1994    In Ed. Page R. and Baldwin J. Social Policy Review 6, Social work in the 1990s: empowerment, fact or fiction? In Ed. Social Policy Association pp 170 – 189

1994    Evetts J. Women & Career: Themes and Issues in Advanced Industrial Societies; Paid and Unpaid Work Women who care for adult dependents. Pp 87-99, Longman

1993    Case Management: Does Social Work have a Future?

1993    Ed. Hobman D. ‘Uniting generations’. Informal social Care; implications for formal care pp 69 – 83. Age Concern

1993   Informal Social Care and Its Implications for Formal Care.pdf pp 69 – 83. Uniting Generations. Age Concern

1992    In Child Abuse Review. Vol. 1 No April 1992. Social Work Intervention, pp. 19-32.

1991    (with M. Charles) Multidisciplinary is Different! Child Protection Working Together. Vol. 1 ‘The process of learning and training’. Vol. II ‘Sharing perspectives’ Nottingham University.

1990    Report on the death of Stephanie Fox. Wandsworth Borough Council. (with Lynch)

1989    Taken from Home.pdf, pp 155 - 180 In The Values of Change in Social Work, Ed Shardlow. Tavistock

1989    Empowerment and Opportunity.pdf

1989    What does Training have to offer to Interpersonal Work? pp. 6 – 14 In The Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse, NSPCC.

1988    Law and Social Work Education. In Issues in Social Work Education pp 31-37, Vol. 8, no. 1.

1988    Multi-disciplinary work - where next?.pdf

1988    Practice Issues Arising from Enquiries.pdf

1988    The Next Twenty Years - Can Community Care be a Reality?.pdf

1987    Implications of recent child care research for future organisation of services, pp 10-20. In Creative Social Work with Families. BASW.

1986    Women in Old Age - reflections on policy and practice.pdf

1986    In British Journal of Social Work. Guest Editorial – Jasmine Beckford Inquiry.

1986    The personal social services, pp 98-126, In Defence of the Welfare State ed. Wilding, Manchester University Press. 

1985    Education for Community Care.pdf

1985    Elderly people and visual impairment.pdf

1985    The Changing Role of Social Service Departments.pdf

1983    Research and Policy in the personal social services pp 22-53, In Improving Social Intervention, (ed) Gandy, Robertson and Sinclair, Croom Helm.

1983    Reflections on the Barclay Report: a review article, pp 235-245, Journal of Social Policy, Vol. 12, Part II.

1981    Substitute Care: aspects of research and policy pp 1-6, In Association of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Newsletter No. 7.

1981    Caring and Dependency pp 128-142, In the Impact of Ageing, (ed) Hobman, Croom Helm.

1981    It's time to be all.pdf

1981    The Issues in Context.pdf, pp 13 - 47, In Specialisation in Social Services Teams, Stevenson and Hill. George Allen and Unwin

1981    The Notion of Expertise.pdf, pp 48 - 59, In Specialisation in Social Services Teams, Stevenson and Hill. George Allen and Unwin

This book was a by-product of the commissioned research 'Social Service Teams'.


1980    Social Service Teams in the United Kingdom, pp 9-32, In Teamwork in the personal social services and health care. Croom Helm

1980    The Realities of a Caring Community.pdf

1978    Ageing - A professional perspective.pdf

1978    Practice: An Overview: The Social Worker's Experience of Work.pdf, pp 297 - 326, In: Social Service Teams: The Practitioner's View, eds. Parsloe P. and Stevenson O., HMSO

This research was commissioned by the (then) Department of Health and Social Security. The remit was to examine the task of the field worker within local authority social services departments and their equivalents in Scotland and Northern Ireland and to consider the implications for social work education'.


1978    Some Educational Implications, pp 329 - 359, In: Social Service Teams: The Practitioner's View, eds. Parsloe P. and Stevenson O., HMSO

1978    Seebohn - seven years on.pdf

1976    Some Dilemmas in Social Work Education.pdf

1976    The Development of Social Work Education.pdf pp 123-144, In Traditions of Social Policy. Basil Blackwell, Oxford

1975    Control without Custody.pdf

1973    Stigma and Need.pdf pp 13 - 37, In Claimant or Client, Stevenson. George Allen and Unwin

1973    The Exercise of Discretion.pdf pp 38 - 59, In Claimant or Client, Stevenson. George Allen and Unwin

This book was a product of time spent as a Social Worker Advisor to the Supplementary Benefits Commission. The issues remain of great significance in social policy generally, not just social security.

 

1972    Strengths and Weaknesses in Residential Care.pdf

1971    Knowledge for Social Work.pdf

1971    Relationships between Educators and Practitioners in Social Work.pdf

1970    Care or Control - a view of intermediate treatment.pdf

1969    Welfare - Problems and Priorities.pdf

1969    The problems of individual need and fair shares for all.pdf

1968    Specialisation within a Unified Service.pdf

1967    New Thinking about Institutional Care - Summing Up.pdf

1967    Co-ordination Reviewed.pdf pp 113-120, In Social Work and Social Values, Readings in Social Work Vol. III Compiled by Eileen Younghusband. George Allen and Unwin

1966    Social Work and Training - The Next Phase.pdf

1964    The Challenge of Family Social Work Today.pdf

1964    Intuition and Involvement in Social Work.pdf

1963    The Understanding Caseworker.pdf

1963    The Skills of Supervision - A study of teaching method.pdf

1963    Reception Into Care - its Meaning for all Concerned.pdf

1963    Co-ordination Reviewed - Case Conference.pdf

1962    Maintaining the Links - Our Role with Parents.pdf

1961    Integration of Theory and Practice in Professional Training.pdf