Independent Social Work - A Risky Business? Author:Edited by Gail C. Tucker, Anne Sambidge & Helen Ogilvy It focuses on knowledge transmission

It focuses on knowledge transmission

Issues such as the current disillusionment

Social work is a diverse and contested activity in which national traditions and cultural factors affect its form and its adaptation to changing political and socio-economic conditions

the book provides an excellent introductory text to social work with black and minority ethnic communities for students

The country analyses examine a range of parameters of professional practice

Independent Social Work - A Risky Business? Author:Edited by Gail C. Tucker, Anne Sambidge & Helen Ogilvy It focuses on knowledge transmissionWith chapters contributed by members of BASWs Independents Forum, this book covers a range of opinions and styles, combining some very serious issues and remarkable creativity. This reflects the very wide cross section of social workers who have elected to run their own businesses and who celebrate the satisfaction they derive from their chosen path, whilst realistically identifying the many pitfalls that await the unwary practitioner. The book is