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COVID-19: changing fields of social work practice with children and young people

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: Drawing on the theoretical work of Wacquant, Bourdieu and Foucault, we interrogate how the COVID-19 pandemic has weaponised child and family social work practices through reinvigorated mechanisms of discipline and surveillance. We explore how social workers are caught in the struggle between enforcement and relational welfare support. We consider how the illusio of social work obscures power dynamics impacting children, young people and families caught in child welfare systems, disproportionately affecting classed and racialised individuals.

Source: Critical and Radical Social Work

DOI: 10.1332/204986021x16109919842882

Authors: Joanne Dillon, Ffion Evans, Lauren Elizabeth Wroe

Institutions: University of Sheffield, Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Bedfordshire

Language: English

Topic: Social Work Education and Practice

Subfield: Public Administration

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Government of the United Kingdom