Black Issues in Social Work and Social Care

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Over several decades, anti-oppressive practice and anti-discriminatory perspectives have become an integral part of social work. These perspectives emerged during the 1980s in response to the growing awareness of widespread discrimination and inequalities in service provision and delivery. Anti-racist perspectives were subsumed into an anti-discriminatory framework which addressed wider forms of discrimination such as those based on gender, disability, and ageing. Major social work texts have developed anti-discriminatory perspectives and anti-oppressive models of practice as an essential component of contemporary social work. Black Issues in Social Work and Social Care builds upon popular texts addressing anti-discriminatory frameworks, but focuses specifically upon black perspectives in social work taking into account current issues and concerns. There is an urgent need for a new text that addresses new developments and charts the impact of social changes, shaping social work theory