Developing practice placements in community care for social work students

Abstract

The Community Care legislation has led to changes in Agencies which require the redefinition of social work tasks. Social work values and philosophy are being challenged in that professional social workers are not being considered as essential to its implementation. Some see these changes as the death knell for professional social work. Social work educators need therefore to be proactive in assisting social work students to anticipate the implications arising from these changes in order that they can demonstrate the centrality of social work values and skills to making the new legislation work for the benefit of their clients. This article identifies some principal themes of the Community Care legislation, and links learning activities in practice placements to the changes arising from the legislation. It considers practice teaching implications.

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