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040			_aAFVC
100			_aFerguson, Harry _98906
245			_aThe nature and culture of social work with children and families in long-term casework : _bfindings from a qualitative longitudinal study _cHarry Ferguson, Lisa Warwick, Tarsem Singh Cooner, Jadwiga Leigh, Liz Beddoe, Tom Disney and Gillian Plumridge
260			_bWiley, _c2020
500			_aChild & Family Social Work, 2020, Advance online publication, 13 February 2020
520			_aSocial work in the United Kingdom is preoccupied with what social workers cannot do due to having limited time to spend with service users. Yet remarkably little research has examined what social workers actually do, especially in long‐term relationships. This paper draws from an ethnographic study of two social work departments in England that spent 15 months observing practice and organizational life. Our findings show that social work some of the time has a significant amount of involvement with some service users and the dominant view that relationship‐based practice is rarely achieved is in need of some revision. However, families at one research site received a much more substantial, reliable overall service due to the additional input of family support workers and having a stable workforce who had their own desks and were co‐located with managers in small team offices. This generated a much more supportive, reflective culture for social workers and service users than at the second site, a large open plan “hot‐desking” office. Drawing on relational, systemic, and complexity theories, the paper shows how the nature of what social workers do and culture of practice are shaped by the interaction between available services, office designs, and practitioners', managers', and service users' experiences of relating together. (Authors' abstract). Record #6554
650		4	_9416 _aCHILDREN
650		4	_aFAMILIES _9238
650		4	_aORGANISATIONAL SYSTEMS _9416
650		4	_aSOCIAL SERVICES _9555
650		4	_aSOCIAL WORK PRACTICE _9562
650		4	_aSUPPORT SERVICES _9591
651		4	_aUNITED KINGDOM _92604
700			_aWarwick, Lisa _98907
700			_aCooner, Tarsem Singh _98908
700			_aLeigh, Jadwiga _98909
700			_aBeddoe, Liz _96608
700			_aDisney, Tom _98910
700			_aPlumridge, Gillian _98911
773	0		_tChild & Family Social Work, 2020, Advance online publication, 13 February 2020
830			_aChild & Family Social Work _94703
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12746
942			_cARTICLE _2ddc