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British Journal of Social Work 2006 36(1):149-157; doi:10.1093/bjsw/bch382
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Association of Social Workers. All rights reserved.

Social Work, Asset-based Welfare and the Child Trust Fund

Lee Gregory and Mark Drakeford

Lee Gregory is a community development worker in Cardiff, where he conducted the research reported in this paper.

Mark Drakeford is Professor of Social Work and Applied Social Studies at the University of Cardiff.

Correspondence to School of the Social Sciences, University of Cardiff, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3WT. E-mail: Drakeford{at}Cardiff.ac.uk

Asset-based welfare represents a new departure in British income maintenance policy and the Child Trust Fund is its most important contemporary example. This Research Note explores the claims made for asset-based welfare in general and for the Child Trust Fund in particular. It sets out the results of an investigation into the views of young people into potential uses which individuals might make of the Fund. It then suggests a series of reasons why social workers ought to take a particular interest in the development of asset-based welfare policies and the benefits which might flow from them.

Keywords: asset-based welfare, Child Trust Fund, social work


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