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© British Association of Social Workers

Preventive Intervention as a Working Concept in Child-Care Practice

ROSALIND G. HARGREAVES and JANET HADLOW

The authors are lecturers in Social Work at the University of Kent.

Correspondence to: Rosalind Hargreaves, Lecturer in Social Work, Department of Social Work Studies, Keynes College, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NP.

Summary

Prevention persists in social work despite criticism of the term. In 1975 and 1990 identical surveys were carried out to discover what social workers were trying to prevent in sampled individual pieces of work. The study elicits the assumptions underpinning their thinking about prevention and notes differences between the two surveys. The findings are then discussed in relation to the 1989 Children Act. A model for individual preventive practice is presented and the discussion of issues concludes that the usage of the term will continue despite a change of focus in child-care legislation. Prevention can provide a more valuable framework for practice with the benefits of greater specificity and clarity of thinking on the part of practitioners.


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