Description
This book is a call for confident, skilled and knowledgeable practice in social work. The current managerialist agenda has restricted judgement and the exercise of discretion in the profession, and, more damagingly, has played down the social justice components of social work, as well as the responsibilities for therapeutic and change-orientated interventions. This book explores how, through strong self-leadership, social workers can both explain and demonstrate how social work can achieve positive change. Offering a fresh and innovative view on leadership for social workers, managers of social services and social work students at all levels, the book identifies tactics and strategies to provide leadership both within a team and in senior positions.
About the Author
Bill McKitterick is a social worker now working in supervision and leadership. He has been a director of social services for ten years, including leading workforce development. He has worked in programmes to improve social work practice in local authority services following critical inspections and has contributed through the British Association of Social Workers and the College of Social Work to the national reform programme.
Reviews
"Drawing on extensive experience as practitioner, manager and passionate advocate for relationship-based social work, Bill McKitterick's analysis of the centrality of leadership throughout a social worker's career is thoroughly researched and scholarly but also intensely personal." June Thoburn, University of East Anglia
"Based on decades of experience McKitterick makes a powerful case for the authority of practice and the importance of wisdom and humility in social work accountability." Sue White, University of Birmingham
"Providing an unrelenting critique of reforms that have spawned passive social work, this is a welcome assertion of every social worker's responsibility to reclaim the possibilities inherent in active social work." Michael Preston-Shoot, University of Bedfordshire & Independent Chair, Luton Safeguarding Children Board
''A great handbook that every social worker should read'' British Journal of Social Work
Book Information
ISBN 9781447314851
Author Bill Mckitterick
Format Paperback
Page Count 216
Imprint Policy Press
Publisher Bristol University Press
About the Author
Bill McKitterick is a social worker now working in supervision and leadership. He has been a director of social services for ten years, including leading workforce development. He has worked in programmes to improve social work practice in local authority services following critical inspections and has contributed through the British Association of Social Workers and the College of Social Work to the national reform programme.
Reviews
"Drawing on extensive experience as practitioner, manager and passionate advocate for relationship-based social work, Bill McKitterick's analysis of the centrality of leadership throughout a social worker's career is thoroughly researched and scholarly but also intensely personal." June Thoburn, University of East Anglia
"Based on decades of experience McKitterick makes a powerful case for the authority of practice and the importance of wisdom and humility in social work accountability." Sue White, University of Birmingham
"Providing an unrelenting critique of reforms that have spawned passive social work, this is a welcome assertion of every social worker's responsibility to reclaim the possibilities inherent in active social work." Michael Preston-Shoot, University of Bedfordshire & Independent Chair, Luton Safeguarding Children Board
''A great handbook that every social worker should read'' British Journal of Social Work
Book Information
ISBN 9781447314851
Author Bill Mckitterick
Format Paperback
Page Count 216
Imprint Policy Press
Publisher Bristol University Press
