Inequality and Social Work

Rick Hood is a registered social worker and Professor of Social Work in the Department of Social Work and Social Care at Kingston University. He studied modern languages at Cambridge University and spent a number of years doing youth and community work in Germany and France before training and practising as a social worker in South London. Most of his teaching and research has been in the field of children′s social care, covering topics such as complexity, inequality, assessment and decision-making, reunification from care, interprofessional working, domestic abuse and child protection, and the inspection of services.

• Chapter 1. What is inequality?Chapter 2. The many faces of inequalityChapter 3. Health and welfare inequalitiesChapter 4. Social policy and inequalityChapter 5. Global inequalitiesChapter 6. The role of social workChapter 7. Radical and critical social workChapter 8. Community social work

A long awaited title to help social workers identify and understand inequalities within their work. A pleasure to read with case studies and exercises to engage in!