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22 - Social Work and Social Policy
University of the West of Scotland
De la modernización a la "Gran Sociedad": continuidades y cambios en el Trabajo Social en el Reino Unido
Developments in social work in the United Kingdom since the formation of the Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition Government in May 2010.This period has been characterised by continuity and change: continuity: neoliberal assumptions which underpinned New Labour’s approach to social work continue to inform the Coalition; change: there is evidence of
vigorous anti-statist rhetoric, in a critique of “bureaucracy” and in the promotion of the Big Society as an all-embracing ideology. The paper will explore implications of the Big Society approach for social work and social care, through the policies of personalisation, localism and “open public services”.
