Social Work and the Making of Social Policy

Ute Klammer is a Professor and Director of the Institute of Work, Skills and Training at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Simone Leiber is a Professor of Social Policy at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Sigrid Leitner is a Professor for Social Policy at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne.

• Introduction: Social Work and the Making of Social Policy ~ Ute Klammer, Simone Leiber and Sigrid Leitner Part One: Social Work, Problem Definition and Agenda Setting Social Work as Policy Innovator: Challenges and Possibilities in the UK ~ Roger SmithSocial Work, Problem Definition and Policy Change in the USA: The Case of sex trafficked Youth ~ Lisa Werkmeister Rozas, Megan Feely and Jason OstranderItalian Social Workers Voices: from a Pilot Anti-Poverty Intervention to a National Policy ~ Matteo D’Emilione, Giovannina Assunta Giuliano, Paolo Raciti and Paloma Vivaldi Vera Part Two: Social Work Interests in Policy Formulation and Decision MakingSocial Reform in the US: Lessons from the Progressive Era ~ Francisco BrancoSocial Work Academia and Social Policy in Israel: On the Role of Social Work Academics in the Policy Process ~ Idit Weiss-Gal and John GalSocial Workers’ Collective Policy Practice in Times of Austerity. Italy and Spain compared ~ Riccardo GuidiSocial Policy and Welfare Movements ‘from below’: The Social Work Action Network (SWAN) in the UK ~ Rich Moth and Michael LavaletteSection Three: Social Work and ImplementationPolicy Work and the Ethics of Obedience and Resistance: Perspectives from Britain and beyond ~ Tony EvansSystemic Barriers to effective Implementation of Child Protection Reform in Israel ~ Ravit AlfandariSocial Workers implementing Social Assistance in Spain: reshaping Poverty in a familialistic Welfare State ~ Sergio Sánchez CastiñeiraLayering, social Risks and manufactured Uncertainties in Social Work in Poland ~ Paweł Poławski‘A little more Humanity’: Placement Officers in Germany in-between Social Work and Social Policy ~ Markus Gottwald and Frank SowaConclusion: Social Work and the Making of Social Policy - Lessons learned ~ Ute Klammer, Simone Leiber and Sigrid Leitner

"This book provides an eclectic mix of examples from the USA and Europe to exemplify the different aspects of policy practice. It should be essential reading for all those who seek to place policy firmly within a social work practice agenda." Graeme Simpson, University of Wolverhampton