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    COVID-19: changing fields of social work practice with children and young people

    Dillon, Joanne, Evan, Ffion and Wroe, Lauren Elizabeth (2021) COVID-19: changing fields of social work practice with children and young people. Critical and Radical Social Work, 9 (2). pp. 289-296. ISSN 2049-8608

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    Abstract

    Drawing on the theoretical work of Wacquant, Bourdieu and Foucault, we interrogate how the COVID-19 pandemic has weaponised child and family social work practices through reinvigorated mechanisms of discipline and surveillance. We explore how social workers are caught in the struggle between enforcement and relational welfare support. We consider how the illusio of social work obscures power dynamics impacting children, young people and families caught in child welfare systems, disproportionately affecting classed and racialised individuals.

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