Covid-19: changing fields of social work practice with children and young people

Joanne Dillon; Ffion Evans; Lauren Wroe

doi:10.1332/204986021X16109919842882

Covid-19: changing fields of social work practice with children and young people

Joanne Dillon
, Ffion Evans
, Lauren Wroe

Institute of Applied Social Research (IASR)

University of Sheffield
Manchester Metropolitan University

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Abstract

Drawing on the theoretical work of Wacquant, Bourdieu and Foucault, we interrogate how the COVID-19 pandemic has weaponised child and family social work practices through reinvigorated mechanisms of discipline and surveillance. We explore how social workers are caught in the struggle between enforcement and relational welfare support. We consider how the illusio of social work obscures power dynamics impacting children, young people and families caught in child welfare systems, disproportionately affecting classed and racialised individuals.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	289-296
Number of pages	8
Journal	Critical and Radical Social Work
Volume	9
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1332/204986021X16109919842882
Publication status	Published - 10 Feb 2021

Keywords

COVID-19
Children's services social work
social work
surveillance
social field
children and families

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Sociology and Political Science

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