The establishment of a foster care programme by a voluntary organization

Social Administration seems to be IN these days and there is probably no social work course without at least some lectures under this heading. Unfortunately, there is a wide variety in the interpretations of what it really means, and an even wider variety of emphases when applying social administration to social work practice. An added difficulty is the problem of the many different definitions of “social”, “administration”, “policy”, both within social work and in other disciplines.