Practising Social Work Law

SUZY BRAYE is Professor of Social Work and Head of Department, Social Work& Social Care, at the University of Sussex, UK, and is the Editor of the European Journal of Social Work. She has written widely on social work and the law, adult services provision and the participation of experts by experience in social work policy, practice, education and research, and has worked in mental health and adult care, staff development and children's services management. MICHAEL PRESTON-SHOOT is Professor of Social Work and Dean of the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. He is an Independent Chair of both a safeguarding vulnerable adults board and a local safeguarding children's board. He has researched and written extensively on social work law, and also on social work education and service user experiences of service provision. He is Joint Founding Editor of Ethics and Social Welfare. Suzy and Michael are the authors of the Social Care Institute for Excellence's (SCIE) award-winning e-learning objects for social work law.

Acknowledgements Table of Legal Rules Abbreviations Tables of Cases Preface to the Third Edition Towards Practising Social Work Law Social Work Law: Critical Perspectives Beyond Dilemmas to Decisions Adult Services, Mental Well-being and Criminal Justice Children, Young People and Their Families Frameworks for Decision-Making and Accoutability Frameworks for Partnership Working Making Sense of Practice References