Introduction ~ Terry Bamford
Social Work in 1970 ~ Keith Bilton
Social Services Departments: Success or Failure? ~ Terry Bamford
Regulation and Inspection of Social Work: Costly Distraction or Stimulus to Improve? ~ David N Jones
Continuity and Change in the Knowledge Base for Social Work ~ June Thoburn
Social Work Education: Learning From the Past? Hilary Tompsett
Practising Social Work ~ Guy Shennan
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Two Personal Views ~ Malcolm Jordan
From Clients as Fellow Citizens to Service Users as Co-producers of Social Work ~ Peter Beresford and Suzy Croft
The England and Wales Children Act 1989: The Highwater Mark of Progressive Reform? ~ Jane Tunstill and June Thoburn
Social Work with Offenders ~ Terry Bamford
The Impact of Scandal and Inquiries on Social Work and the Personal Social Services ~ Ray Jones
British Social Work: International Context and Perspectives ~ Karen Lyons
Afterword ~ Terry Bamford and Keith Bilton