Series editor’s preface vii // Contributors ix // Acknowledgements x // Prologue 1 // 1 Social theory, social change and social work: an introduction 4 - Nigel Parton // 2 Social work through the looking glass 19 - Jeff Hopkins // 3 After social work? 36 - John Clarke // 4 Postmodernism, feminism and the question of difference 61 - Fiona Williams // 5 Surface and depth in social-work practice 77 - David Howe // 6 Social work, risk and ’the blaming system’ 98 - Nigel Parton // 7 Telling tales: probation in the contemporary social formation 115 - Robert Harris // 8 The future of social work with older people in a changing world 135 - Judith Phillips // 9 Social work with children and families: from child welfare to child protection 152 - Olive Otway // 10 Regulation for radicals: the state, CCETSW and the academy 172 - David Webb // 11 Anti-intellectualism and the peculiarities of British social work education 190 - Chris Jones // References 211 // Index 230