The sixth, fully updated edition of this bestselling guide links the theory and practice of community work in an insightful and relatable read for students and practitioners alike. With an accessible style, experienced author Alan Twelvetrees sets out the realities of practice in everyday community development (CD) work.
With a much-expanded section on specialist community work, the guide also features brand new sections on work in health, housing, with children, young people and those with disabilities and the changing role of IT, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic. This edition features:
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This classic text provides a comprehensive overview of the knowledge required to work in community practice in the UK and is essential for anyone studying or working in the field.
129 FoUR social work and social action summary • Social work has religious roots dating back to the 19th century but has shed them in favour of social scientific methods that have resulted in religion becoming a taboo subject. • Social work research in the UK has made great strides in the last decade in raising awareness among social work teachers and students of the significance of religion and how to assess it in the lives of clients. Social policy research could learn valuable lessons from this. • Social work and social action are deeply
77 FOUR Women and social action: social change through group activities and networks Introduction Women have a lengthy history of struggling for gender parity, but achievements fall short of women’s aspirations. Thus, feminist social action continues to promote women’s well-being holistically throughout society. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) reflect the international community’s commitment to realising gender equality by 2030. Time will tell whether these objectives will materialise globally. Feminist social action has been a primary vehicle
49 THREE Women and social action: social change at the individual level Introduction Traditional community action has failed to deal adequately with individual need and respond appropriately to individual circumstances and personal expectations due to its commitment to collective action. Arguing that structural arrangements have a direct bearing on personal experiences, feminist community workers have addressed this problem by linking personal woes to structural relationships and theorising individual predicaments as reflective of specific constellations
practices discussed in this book, and indeed that term is still the one used most often in the UK, though community organisation is common in the US and community development is probably used more in the rest of the English-speaking world. Some common terms in this field, and their definitions, are as follows: Community development work – work, normally by a paid worker, to assist the members of a particular community to organise themselves collectively in order to address various shared problems and needs. Social action – work by a community group to persuade
75 Critical and Radical Social Work • vol 5 • no 1 • 75–91 • © Policy Press 2017 • #CRSW Print ISSN 2049 8608 • Online ISSN 2049 8675 • https://doi.org/10.1332/204986016X14822509544479 Submission accepted 30 November 2016 • First published online 18 January 2017 article Self-directed Groupwork – social justice through social action and empowerment Jennie Fleming, jennie.fleming@ntu.ac.uk Nottingham Trent University, UK Dave Ward, dward@dmu.ac.uk De Montfort University, UK Self-directed Groupwork and its values and methodology have taken root in a range of
241 TWELVE Learning to sustain social action Jenny Phillimore and Angus McCabe Chapter aims This chapter aims to explore: • how people learn for, and through, community activism; • the role of social networks and capacity building in community learning; • changing learning needs in evolving community groups and how those needs are met. Context: from social capital to capacity building Over past decades, the concept of social capital (Coleman, 1988; Putnam, 2000) has been influential in the development of policy around communities of place, interest and
65 Good intentions into social action Michael King Morality Little in life arouses moral indignation and demands moral judgements and action more than the suffering of children, so let us start [...] with morality and the ways we distinguish between good and evil. Moral discourses take the spectacle of children’s suffering and seek out the evil that has caused that suffering. In a powerful symbolic way the suffering of children comes to represent the exploitation of the powerless, the abuse of the defenceless, innocence defiled. The relief of this suffering, the
29 Voluntary Sector Review • vol 5 • no 1 • 29–45 • © Policy Press 2014 • #VSR Print ISSN 2040 8056 • Online ISSN 2040 8064 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204080514X13921367481010 research Faith-based social action below the radar: a study of the UK charismatic-evangelical urban church Andy Wier, Independent researcher info@andywierconsulting.com This article presents the findings of a study of an under-researched type of faith group whose activities in socially and economically disadvantaged neighbourhoods have often fallen ‘below the radar’ in previous
41 ar tic le © The Policy Press • 2012 • ISSN 1759-8273 Key words non-demand • social rights • policy making • France Journal of Poverty and Social Justice • vol 20 • no 1 • 2012 • 41-53 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/175982712X626761 Non-demand for social rights: a new challenge for social action in France Philippe Warin The fact of taking into account the issue of non-demand for social rights leads to changes in the logics underpinning public policy. These changes have a significant impact on the relationship with the publics targeted by these policies, and
