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Using the Law in Social Work - Robert Johns, Jacqueline Harry

Using the Law in Social Work

Buch | Hardcover
280 Seiten
2026 | 10th Revised edition
SAGE Publications Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0362-0946-9 (ISBN)
CHF 134,40 inkl. MwSt
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Familiarity with law, legislation and legal processes is fundamental to sound social work practice. This book both undergraduate and postgraduate social work students gain this foothold in understanding law as it applies to social work practice.
A core function of social work is to assist, empower, and protect the most vulnerable in society, requiring social workers to often make decisions in complex and challenging situations. This book helps social workers understand their statutory duties, keep up to date with relevant law, legislation and legal processes and learn how to apply this knowledge to social work practice. Using jargon-free language, it provides a grounding in legally appropriate, rights-based social work across services for children and families and child protection, adult care law, youth justice, court work, professional regulation and human rights.

Before moving into social work education, Robert Johns worked for a number of years in a range of social work roles, predominantly in the public sector. His specialisms were youth justice and court-work, representing the interests of children involved in care proceedings. Academically, his major abiding interest has been social work law but he has also taught social policy and social work values and ethics, hence his latest book, Ethics and Law for Social Workers. Currently, he teaches  at the University of East London, where has been Head of Social Work and programme leader for the qualifying MA offered in conjunction with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. He is the author of Using the Law in Social Work, now in its sixth edition, Social Work, Social Policy and Older People and, most recently,  Capacity and Autonomy.

Chapter 1: But I want to be a social worker, not a lawyer
Chapter 2: Human rights
Chapter 3: Children’s rights and needs
Chapter 4: Meeting children’s needs when things go wrong
Chapter 5: Adult social care
Chapter 6: Adults with additional support needs
Chapter 7: Youth justice
Chapter 8: Ending up in court
Chapter 9: Providing a quality service

Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.1.2026
Reihe/Serie Transforming Social Work Practice Series
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 171 x 246 mm
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-0362-0946-6 / 1036209466
ISBN-13 978-1-0362-0946-9 / 9781036209469
Zustand Neuware
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