Social Policy and Society is part of the 'Social Policy Package' along with the Journal of Social Policy and the Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy.

Every themed section includes an introductory piece, a set of peer reviewed articles, a selected review of the key literature, plus a guide to key sources in the area.Īll articles need to be of a high academic quality and should also be accessible to a wide readership which includes policymakers, academic staff and students within and beyond the United Kingdom. Each issue contains stand-alone peer reviewed articles and, uniquely, a themed section, edited by a Guest Editor(s). Contributions on teaching and learning issues within the discipline are also welcome. Accredited training, consultancy, research and resources for the social care and health sectors from independent charity and improvement agency, the Social. The journal welcomes scholarly papers - both theoretical and empirical - which analyse any aspect of social policy and its relationships with society from different angles. The journal welcomes stimulating original articles that draw upon contemporary policy-related research and associated developments in the social sciences at the national, regional and international level. We hope these books will also be available to buy at the conference.Social Policy and Society is an international academic journal sponsored by the UK Social Policy Association. These address the following areas: personalisation, the crisis in mental health, poverty and inequality, ethics and politics in social work, children and families social work, and the crisis in social care. Similarly, next April a new series of six short edited texts from Palgrave Macmillan entitled Critical Issues in Contemporary Social Work, is released.

In common with the theme of this year’s conference, which addresses alternative futures for social welfare and social care, the first issue will consider what the ‘future of social work’ may be in the years ahead.

SWAN hopes that a formal launch for this title will take place at the 8th National SWAN Conference at London South Bank University on 12-13 April 2013. Social workers must have a degree in social work (BA), or masters degree in social work. Just as in the national context, international social work encompasses research, community organization and/or development, and educational endeavors and initiatives. International Work Open submenu Feedback. You will receive an acknowledgement and an alert when the trial begins in April 2013 when the first issue is published. Table 13.1 Definitions of international social work. To sign up for this free online trial, please email with your full name and contact address. Policy Press issued a call for contributions to the journal in May 2012 which remains open.Ĭritical and Radical Social Work will be available online for free during 2013, its first year of publication. SWAN believes that Critical and Radical Social Work: An international journal will support those across social work and welfare by providing a radical perspective and ideas for practice. As a truly international journal it actively encourages contributions from academics, scholars and practitioners from across the global village.’ It welcomes contributions that consider and question themes relating to the definition of social work and social work professionalism, that look at ways in which organic and ‘indigenous’ practice can expand concepts of the social work project and that consider alternative and radical histories of social work activity. The journal publishes papers which seek to analyse and respond to issues, such as the impact of global neo-liberalism on social welfare austerity and social work social work and social movements social work, inequality and oppression, and understanding and responding to global social problems (such as war, disasters and climate change). ‘An exciting new journal that will promote debate and scholarship around a range of engaged social work themes. Policy Press describe the publication as:

International social work journal