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© British Association of Social Workers

Contract or Con Trick Revisited: Comments on the Reply by Corden and Preston-Shoot

CHRIS ROJEK and STEWART COLLINS

Correspondence to Stewart Collins, The Queen's College, 1 Park Drive, Glasgow, G3 GLP

Summary

Contract work has many advocates and many critics. In a paper that we published last year in this journal we set out our reservations on the use of contracts in social work. This provoked a strongly worded reply from Corden and Preston-Shoot. In the paper below, we consider some contributions from discourse analysis and, in particular, various perspectives on the limitations of empiricism. We go on to suggest that Corden and Preston-Shoot neglect the significance of structural matters in their response, such as class, race and gender, and we emphasize the importance of an open dialogue in social work based on a wide variety of theoretical sources.


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