Professor Sarah Banks is Co-director of the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action at Durham University. She has a background in community development and previously worked in the voluntary sector and local authority social services. Her research interests include professional ethics, community development, community-based participatory research and work with young people.

• Series Editors’ Introduction;Reclaiming social work ethics: challenging the new public management ~ lead essay by Sarah Banks;A roadmap for social work ethics: reflections and a proposal ~ response by Frederic G. Reamer;Contextualising the ‘ethics boom’ ~ response by Stephen Cowden;Reframing social work ethics through a political ethic of care and social justice lens ~ response by Vivienne Bozalek;‘Managerialism’: challenging the new orthodoxy ~ response by Chris Beckett;Ethical practice in an unethical environment ~ response by Michael Reisch;Social work ethics and social justice: the growing gap ~ response by Fumihito Ito;Working in the spaces between care and control ~ response by Merlinda Weinberg;A Marxist perspective ~ response by Paul Blackledge;Reflections on the responses to ‘Reclaiming social work ethics’ ~ concluding remarks by Sarah Banks;References

"Politically committed...accessible to a wide audience and gives a satisfying contribution to the debate about social work ethics." Research, policy and planning "Taking a radical stance has never been more important in social work. This most timely and innovative series of internationally renowned authors makes a significant contribution to advancing a new politics of social work." Professor Stephen Webb, Chair in Social Work, Glasgow Caledonian University