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Allocating Blame in Social Work
Geraldine Macdonald was previously a social worker with Oxfordshire Social Services and is now a Lecturer in Applied Social Studies at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London. She is co-author (with B. L. Hudson) of Behavioural Social Work: an Introduction (1986).
Correspondence to Geraldine Macdonald, Applied Social Studies, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, Egham Hill, Surrey TW20 OEX.
Summary
This article takes issue with those who assume that the responsibility for bad outcomes in social work, such as child deaths, is appropriately laid at the feet of individual workers. It examines the philosophical origins of such arguments, some recent applications within social work literature and their appropriateness to the realities of social work practice. The author argues that a morality of social work must recognize the social and organizational context in which it occurs.
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