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Jeremy Roche, "Law, ethics and social work practice:
a critical curriculum", in "Social Work Law: an Interface for
Policy and Practice Development", Liverpool Law Review XIX/2
(1997), 121-142: In this article I consider the relationship between ethics,
social work and the law. I do so from a standpoint which sees a number of
ethical issues as central to professional social work practice namely a
commitment to equality of treatment, to empowering service users and to
the principle of accountability. My concern here is twofold: to ask whether
there is any connection between the ethical issues underpinning professional
practice and the legal framework which seeks to regulate such practice;
and second, on the basis that the two are connected, what might this mean
for how we think about the law social work relationship? In addressing
this question while I focus on the area of children and families much of
what I have to say is of general relevance to social work. By way of conclusion
I argue that greater familiarity with the debates within traditional jurisprudence
would enhance the social work law curriculum and permit a more critical
consideration of the role of law in social work practice.
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