Trusting in Social Work

Two successive terms of a New Labour government have requiredsocial work practice in the UK to occupy a particular publicpolicy context that is, at best, indifferent and, at worst,hostile to some of the professional interests and traditionalconstituencies of social workers. In this paper, the immediatepast editors of the Journal reflect on how social work has soughtto adapt and survive under these conditions, as revealed inthe papers published during the period of their stewardship.