Using the Law in Social Work

With this new edition, you will

• Build confidence with the latest professional standards, regulatory requirements, and apprenticeship frameworks.
• Understand how the Children’s Social Care National Framework shapes practice with children, families, and services
• Stay up to date with current legislation, professional guidance, and key social work law sources.
• Apply legal knowledge to everyday practice through real-world examples and case studies.
• Prepare for placement and practice with updated coverage of children and families, youth justice, safeguarding, court work, and professional accountability.

Before moving into social work education, Robert Johns worked for a number of years in a range of social work roles, predominantly in the public sector. His specialisms were youth justice and court-work, representing the interests of children involved in care proceedings. Academically, his major abiding interest has been social work law but he has also taught social policy and social work values and ethics, hence his latest book, Ethics and Law for Social Workers. Currently, he teaches  at the University of East London, where has been Head of Social Work and programme leader for the qualifying MA offered in conjunction with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. He is the author of Using the Law in Social Work, now in its sixth edition, Social Work, Social Policy and Older People and, most recently,  Capacity and Autonomy.