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Social working without borders: challenging privatisation and complicity with the hostile environment

Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Sustainable Development Goals

  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Abstract

Social Workers Without Borders is a UK social work charity established in early 2016 to provide direct support to migrant children and families, and to scaffold this through the development of social work education and activism reflecting the principles of human rights and social justice. Reflecting on Social Workers Without Borders’ model of practice, Lauren Wroe, co-founder and trustee of Social Workers Without Borders, discusses the charity’s recent campaign against Capita and the implications of privatisation for asylum-seeking and migrant families, as well as for the ethical value base of the profession. Positioning Social Workers Without Borders as a voluntary network that ‘fills the gap’ in state services, the author discusses campaign strategies to defend the profession, and the families it supports, from the rolling back of state welfare and the rolling out of state hostility through the deregulated outsourcing of social care services.

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Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 251-255

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Critical and Radical Social Work (Volume 7, Issue 2)

Publication milestones

  • Accepted/In press - 29/05/2019
  • Published - 19/08/2019

Publication status

Published - 19/08/2019

ISSN

2049-8608

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/624823
  • Scopus: 85075621425

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