The changing gender profile of applicants to qualifying social work training in the UK

Perry, Richard; Cree, Viviene E.

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“…The social work teams in both sites included both recently qualified and more experienced social workers, a small number of whom were involved in the training of social work students or were involved in other professional development activities. In terms of gender, it has long been recognized that social work is overrepresented by women, at least at all grades below managerial level (Perry and Cree 2003). This was certainly reflected in the Westwood site where there was a preponderance of women social workers, though in the Southpark site gender was evenly balanced.…”

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Street‐Level Bureaucracy, Interprofessional Relations, and Coping Mechanisms: A Study of Criminal Justice Social Workers in the Sentencing Process

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This article builds on the work of Michael Lipsky and develops an argument about the significance of interprofessional working for street-level bureaucracy.It presents an ethnographic analysis of criminal justice social workers writing presentence reports for the Scottish courts. Social workers' report writing for judges brought into relief issues of relative professional status. Social workers were uncertain of their place within the legal domain and concerned about their credibility as criminal justice professionals. Reports were written, in part at least, as a way of seeking esteem and credibility in the eyes of judges-a motivation that undermined the policy objectives of social enquiry in sentencing. Applying the conceptual tools of Bourdieu to our findings, we argue that streetlevel bureaucrats who have to work across bureaucratic "fields" may find, or fear, that the cultural and symbolic "capital" they retained within their own field is undervalued in the symbolic economy of new fields, putting them in a position of relative inferiority. This issue of relative professional status, and how officials respond to it, is significant for our understanding of street-level bureaucracy.

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“…Indeed, social workers' perceptions of their poor public image seem to be an additional source of stress in itself (Collings and Murray 1996). Further, applications for university training have been in decline, with some speculation that social work's negative public image is, in part, to blame (Perry and Cree, 2003).…”

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Street‐Level Bureaucracy, Interprofessional Relations, and Coping Mechanisms: A Study of Criminal Justice Social Workers in the Sentencing Process

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“…This expansion occurred at a time when there were shortages of UK-trained social workers, accentuated by steep declines in the number of entrants into social work education (Moriarty and Murray, 2007;Perry and Cree, 2003).…”

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International social workers in England: Factors influencing supply and demand

Moriarty

Hussein

Manthorpe

et al. 2011

International Social Work

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Recent years have seen considerable increases in the number of internationally-qualified social workers in England. This article presents trends in the international labour mobility of social workers migrating to work in England alongside information on the supply of UK-trained social workers. It concludes that demographic changes and policy imperatives have accentuated structural issues making it difficult to ensure an adequate supply in the number of domestically-trained social workers. We suggest that more cross-national research is needed to achieve a better understanding of the factors influencing social workers' decisions to work Downloaded from 170 International Social Work 55 (2) in international settings and the extent to which this reflects permanent or temporary migration between countries.

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“…While always in a minority (Christie, 2001), their numbers have declined from around a third to a fifth during the past twenty years (Lyons et al, 1995;Perry and Cree, 2003). Furthermore, proportionally fewer men achieve an award in comparison with women (Cree, 2001).…”

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Diversity and Progression among Students Starting Social Work Qualifying Programmes in England between 1995 and 1998: A Quantitative Study

Hussein¹,

Moriarty²,

Manthorpe³

et al. 2007

British Journal of Social Work

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SummaryThere has been no large-scale study looking at the proportion of social work students in the UK who achieve the professional qualification, although there is some evidence that different groups experience different rates of progression. This article examines progression rates among students studying for the DipSW in England and analyses the factors that influence whether students achieve an award on time (defined as achieving an award without being referred, deferred, failing or withdrawing). The results show that male students, students from a black and minority ethnic group, and stu-dents with a self-reported disability have poorer progression rates. However, contrary to the picture in higher education as a whole, older students and students with previously lower levels of educational attainment do not have poorer progression rates. Social work education has important lessons to share with higher-education colleagues in terms of working with an increasingly diverse student group. However, work is needed to identify students at greater risk of non-progression than others and to develop more effective student support strategies.

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The changing gender profile of applicants to qualifying social work training in the UK

Cited by 30 publications

References 14 publications

Street‐Level Bureaucracy, Interprofessional Relations, and Coping Mechanisms: A Study of Criminal Justice Social Workers in the Sentencing Process

Street‐Level Bureaucracy, Interprofessional Relations, and Coping Mechanisms: A Study of Criminal Justice Social Workers in the Sentencing Process

International social workers in England: Factors influencing supply and demand

Diversity and Progression among Students Starting Social Work Qualifying Programmes in England between 1995 and 1998: A Quantitative Study

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