Social Work Breeds 'Dependency Culture'; Review Group to Assess Services After Catalogue of Failures in System
Sunday Herald › August 09, 2004
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SCOTLAND'S social workers may be encouraging a dependency culture, leading disadvantaged clients to rely on the state for help rather than standing on their own feet, according to the chair of the Scottish Executive's review of the profession.
William Roe, chairman of the 21st Century Social Work group set up by education minister Peter Peacock, said the issue of dependency was just one of those the group would have to look at.See the full content of this document
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Social Work Breeds 'Dependency Culture'; Review Group to Assess Services After Catalogue of Failures in System
Speaking ahead of the group's first meeting, he also proposed using new technologies such as broadband to create virtual communities to help counter the "fragmentation and atomisation" of modern society.
He said the group would survey members of the public to find out which ...See the full content of this document
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