1. Social work in crisis Dr Des McDermott April 2018 Electronic Journals
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2. Ideology and welfare Social Democracy/Socialism (1945 – 1979)
Conservatism – Neo Liberalism (1979 on)
Thatcherism
New Labour – Third Way (1997 – 2010)
Coalition Government (2010 – 2015)
Lib Dems and Conservatives
Big Society (2010 – 2015)
Conservatism – Neo Liberalism (2015 on)
Corbynomics – Old Labour – Socialism
What next?

3. Defining Features of an ideology
Role of Individual
Role of State
Role of the Collective
High or Low Taxes
Attitude Towards Social Change
(Alcock, 2016)

4. What is Neo-Liberalism?
“Neoliberalism is in the first instance a theory of political economic practices that proposes that human well-being can best be advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterized by strong private property rights, free markets and free trade. The role of the state is to create and preserve an institutional framework appropriate to such practices. (D. Harvey, 2005, pp2)

5. Social Work in crisis Cause and symptoms
Preoccupation with the symptoms
The cause of causes – Neo Liberalism
Crisis long in the making
Austerity and the attack on the welfare state
Impact of neo liberalism/markets and managerialism
Four responses from social work
SW Taxonomy – Professor Sarah Banks