From Casework to Community Care: 'The End is Where We Start From' (T. S. Eliot)

Abstract

This paper traces some of the influences which have shaped social work in Britain between the 1960s and the 1980s, with particular reference to the casework inheritance and the community dimension. The latter is illustrated by reference to the Home Office Community Development Projects of the late sixties and by moves throughout the period towards a community care policy in the mental health field. It is suggested that community care revives an older tradition and that the nineteenth century asylum policy was a diversion.

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