Michael Lavalette is Professor in Social Work and Head of the School of Social Sciences at Liverpool Hope University. He has published widely on radical social work and contemporary social movements. He is co-editor of Critical and Radical Social Work journal.

• Foreword ~ Peter DowdIntroduction: what is the future of social work? ~ Michael LavaletteAusterity and the context of social work today ~ Michael LavaletteContemporary developments in child protection in England: reform or reaction? ~ Brid FeatherstoneThe slow death of social work with older people? ~ Mark LymberyMental health social work: the dog that hasn’t barked ~ Iain FergusonLearning disabilities and social work ~ Jan WalmsleySocial work by and for all ~ Peter BeresfordAnti-oppressive social work, neoliberalism and neo-eugenics ~ Gurnam SinghFrom Seebohm factories to neoliberal production lines? The social work labour process ~ John HarrisSocial work and the refugee crisis: reflections from Samos in Greece ~ Chris Jones Conclusion: the road to an alternative future? ~ Michael Lavalette

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