Neoliberal governmentality in social work practice. An example of the Polish social security system

Boryczko, Marcin

doi:10.1080/13691457.2019.1617678

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“…The organisational contexts in which social workers' practise have been progressively and forcefully dominated by neoliberal policy and associated managerial practices for almost four decades (see for example Ferguson and Lavalette 2006;Wallace and Pease 2011;Madhu 2011;Garrett 2017Garrett , 2018Boryczko 2019;Hanesworth 2017;Reisch 2013;Fenton 2014;Abramovitz and Zelnick 2015;Liebenberg et al 2015;Hyslop 2018).…”

Section: The Neoliberalisation Of the Welfare Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical Reflection: An Imperative Skill for Social Work Practice in Neoliberal Organisations?

Morley

O’Bree

2021

Social Sciences

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Social work practice and education have been significantly impacted by neoliberal governmentality, which can greatly undermine the espoused social justice mission of social work. This study explores the research questions: How might critical reflection support social work practice in neoliberal organisations? And how might critical analysis using insights from critical theorists fortify the findings of critically reflective research? This study uses critical reflection on a critical incident (from Author 2’s practice) as a methodology to respond to the first research question. It further analyses the findings of the critically reflective inquiry by drawing on relevant concepts from critical theorists to respond to the second question and expand the possibilities for practitioners to develop emancipatory practices in neoliberal organisations. The findings suggest critical reflection on the critical incident examined was effective in improving social work practice, and that additional critical analysis of the wider issues raised by the research findings may enhance social work as a value-driven, client-centred and social change-oriented profession. The article highlights the benefits and outcomes of working in a critically reflective way, and makes an original contribution to the growing literature that suggests critical reflection is a vital skill for social work practice in neoliberal organisations.

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Section: The Neoliberalisation Of the Welfare Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical Reflection: An Imperative Skill for Social Work Practice in Neoliberal Organisations?

Morley

O’Bree

2021

Social Sciences

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“…Social services are not alien to the major advent of neoliberal policies which, if anything, have been more present in a context of economic crisis (Pastor et al, 2019). In this regard, some studies point out that social workers, being the main professionals in social services, have gone from exercising their profession based on Marxist/Socialist ideologies in which state intervention was extensive and had greater responsibility to ideologies of a more neoliberal nature (Boryczko, 2020) and thus promoting the responsibility of the individual in their own welfare while reducing the state's role as provider. Therefore, and according to these studies, neoliberal tendencies appear to be weakening the power of social services as an agent of change and influence in social policies (Lazar et al, 2018).…”

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Considerations on the Democratic Challenge from the Perspective of Social Services: Community, Participation and (In)equality

Herran

Bergantiños

2022

Made-to-Measure Future(s) for Democracy?

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This chapter offers a view on the need to find a more democratic approach to the social services system. We start from the premise that the current social services system encounters serious difficulties when trying to respond to, and transform, the different problems facing a social reality greatly impacted by injustice and social inequality. The commitment to greater democracy is therefore inevitable from the point of view of what was supposed to be one of the fundamental pillars of the welfare system. A review of some documents and access to some survey data afford an opportunity to discuss what we have called "greater community"/"intensified community", understood as a strategy allowing social services to develop a model based on participation and community perspective as preferential lines of intervention. The defence of this intensified community allows us to recognize the importance of working with the community towards the construction of active citizenship, this being understood as a fundamental condition for developing democracy. Following an overview of the main postulates supporting this interpretation, a brief summary of the reality of the Basque social services system is provided with the aim to outline the scope of greater community proposed herein.

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“…Neoliberal policy and ideology, which have proliferated the human services sector, causing disastrous consequences for practice, are arguably responsible for most of the organisational barriers that undermine children's meaningful participation in practice. The consequences of this continual transformation of the sector, including child protection and family-focused services, has been comprehensively documented within the international social work literature (see for example [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]). This transformation has produced human service organisations that are forced to operate like businesses, including adopting time-monitored, managerial practices that prioritise economic over social justice principles and therefore undermine effective practice (see for example [31][32][33][34]).…”

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Can a Paradigm Shift from Risk Management to Critical Reflection Improve Child-Inclusive Practice?

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Child protection systems within Anglophone countries have been increasingly dominated by neoliberal managerial, risk-dominant paradigms over the past three decades. Assumed to deliver a cost-effective strategy to increase the safety of children, there are many ways this paradigmatic combination systematically undermines child welfare, participation, and well-being. This paper specifically focuses on the ways that risk assessment, neoliberal, and managerial discourses have infiltrated practice and operate to silence and exclude children’s voices. It draws on two case studies to showcase key findings of a comprehensive, state-wide research project called Empowering Children’s Voices, which was initiated by UnitingCare, a non-government organisation within Queensland, Australia, and conducted in partnership with researchers from Queensland University of Technology. It will be argued that a paradigm shift towards a critically reflective reinterpretation of risk can be far more effective at promoting child-inclusive practice and establishing children’s empowered voices as a protective factor against harm.

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Neoliberal governmentality in social work practice. An example of the Polish social security system

Cited by 7 publications

References 14 publications

Critical Reflection: An Imperative Skill for Social Work Practice in Neoliberal Organisations?

Critical Reflection: An Imperative Skill for Social Work Practice in Neoliberal Organisations?

Considerations on the Democratic Challenge from the Perspective of Social Services: Community, Participation and (In)equality

Can a Paradigm Shift from Risk Management to Critical Reflection Improve Child-Inclusive Practice?

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