SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Business Administration
No 2009:2:
Voices from the Field: Welfare Policy and Well-being of Child Protection Social Workers in UK
Mayeda Jamal
Abstract: This paper examines two approaches to Child Protection
Policy and Practise in UK. Governmental policy is examined first, followed
by an overview of alternative approach suggested by its critics. Efficacy
of policy reforms is examined from the perspective of the front liners,
i.e., the child protection social workers who are the main agents
responsible for translating policy into practise. The “reality” of the
social workers is mapped through empirical analysis and used as a measure
to indicate which ideology, one currently adopted by the State or the one
being advocated by its critics, is better suited to improving well-being of
workers as well as recipients of welfare. The importance of taking their
contextual reality into account when formulating policy is highlighted as
crucial to determining the fate of the policy as well quality of life of
social workers. The findings are strongly in favour of the critics and
highlight severe shortcomings in current State ideology of child and family
welfare.
Keywords: Social Policy; Child Welfare; New Public Management; Child Protection Social Workers; (follow links to similar papers)
38 pages, March 1, 2008
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