Social Work and the Making of Social Policy

Ute Klammer is a Professor and Director of the Institute of Work, Skills and Training at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Simone Leiber is a Professor of Social Policy at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Sigrid Leitner is a Professor for Social Policy at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne.

• Introduction: Social Work and the Making of Social Policy ~ Ute Klammer, Simone Leiber and Sigrid Leitner Part One: Social Work, Problem Definition and Agenda Setting Social Work as Policy Innovator: Challenges and Possibilities in the UK ~ Roger SmithSocial Work, Problem Definition and Policy Change in the USA: The Case of sex trafficked Youth ~ Lisa Werkmeister Rozas, Megan Feely and Jason OstranderItalian Social Workers Voices: from a Pilot Anti-Poverty Intervention to a National Policy ~ Matteo D’Emilione, Giovannina Assunta Giuliano, Paolo Raciti and Paloma Vivaldi Vera Part Two: Social Work Interests in Policy Formulation and Decision MakingSocial Reform in the US: Lessons from the Progressive Era ~ Francisco BrancoSocial Work Academia and Social Policy in Israel: On the Role of Social Work Academics in the Policy Process ~ Idit Weiss-Gal and John GalSocial Workers’ Collective Policy Practice in Times of Austerity. Italy and Spain compared ~ Riccardo GuidiSocial Policy and Welfare Movements ‘from below’: The Social Work Action Network (SWAN) in the UK ~ Rich Moth and Michael LavaletteSection Three: Social Work and ImplementationPolicy Work and the Ethics of Obedience and Resistance: Perspectives from Britain and beyond ~ Tony EvansSystemic Barriers to effective Implementation of Child Protection Reform in Israel ~ Ravit AlfandariSocial Workers implementing Social Assistance in Spain: reshaping Poverty in a familialistic Welfare State ~ Sergio Sánchez CastiñeiraLayering, social Risks and manufactured Uncertainties in Social Work in Poland ~ Paweł Poławski‘A little more Humanity’: Placement Officers in Germany in-between Social Work and Social Policy ~ Markus Gottwald and Frank SowaConclusion: Social Work and the Making of Social Policy - Lessons learned ~ Ute Klammer, Simone Leiber and Sigrid Leitner