Social work and the community :

Stepney, Paul.

Social work and the community : a critical context for practice / Keith Popple and Paul Stepney. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, c2008. - x, 201 p. ; 24 cm.

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to the idea of community -- The contribution of community studies and increased state intervention in communities and neighbourhoods -- Rethinking community : globalisation, neo-liberalism and inequality -- Community as an area of social policy -- Community as an organising focus for social policy -- Community care : promoting an empowering service or using the market to contain costs? -- Remaking community : communitarianism and the modernisation of the welfare state -- Social work and the community : from theory to practice -- The theory and practice of community of social work -- Community work and community action -- Future possibilities for community-based social work in an international context.

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Social service--Great Britain.
Community organization--Great Britain.