ABSTRACT

Concern about the role social workers play in adult social care is long standing. Social workers, whose ethics commit them to supporting the empowerment of service users and to social justice, are required to work within a system that fails to secure either and is widely identified as in long-term crisis, despite a number of unsuccessful efforts to transform it. This article describes a detailed examination of the way one council operates. It reveals the gap between how the council says it does this and how this is experienced. It is suggested that the council, however, is not an exception. It follows the national template. The role social workers are required to play in this scenario is critical. They are key to delivery of the template. With little sign of resistance from the social work system itself, hopes for change rely on the emergence of grassroots and political initiatives that seeks a better future for social care.

摘要

社会工作者在成人社会关怀中的作用由来已久。社会工作者的道德要求他们致力于支持服务使用者的赋权和社会正义，他们被要求在一个无法确保这两者的系统中工作，并且被广泛认为处于长期危机中，尽管许多转型的努力都没有成功它。本文详细介绍了一个委员会的运作方式。它揭示了理事会如何说它这样做与如何经历之间的差距。然而，建议理事会也不例外。它遵循国家模板。在这种情况下，社会工作者所扮演的角色至关重要。它们是模板交付的关键。几乎没有来自社会工作系统本身的抵抗迹象，