Social Work In Europe: Educating for Change Author:Editors: Karen Lyons & Sue Lawrence As a result older people

As a result older people have moved from being a marginal concern to one of central importance in social work

its implementation in the managerialist 1990s frustrated the flexible implementation of community care

Adult Protection in the UK: Key issues for early career social workers

has sought to link ‘public issues’ and ‘private troubles’ (or

such as mental health officers

Social Work In Europe: Educating for Change Author:Editors: Karen Lyons & Sue Lawrence As a result older peopleSocial work is a diverse and contested activity in which national traditions and cultural factors affect its form and its adaptation to changing political and socio economic conditions. However, the education and research which underpin this professional field are increasingly open to influences from outside local and national boundaries. Social Work in Europe takes a thematic approach to an analysis of such external influences and the learning