'Hatton's book is a welcome antidote to stagnation and moribund thinking in contemporary professional practice and readers will gain much from engaging with the concepts he sets out and the challenges he raises.' Jonathan Parker, Series Editor

Introduction
A Framework for Understanding Contemporary Social Work
Social work, Community Work and Social Change
Squaring the Circle- From the Individual to the Collective?
The Voluntary and Independent Sectors: Communitarianism, the 'Big Society' and the potential for social action
Involving, integrating or ignoring? Service users, carers and social work
Developing new forms of practice: Professionalism, partnerships and social pedagogy
International social work: European and international reflections on the challenges to social work in selected European countries
Conclusion: New parameters for social work

Kieron Hatton, PhD is a social work academic with interests in social/community work, youth inclusion and social pedagogy who has presented papers at national and international conferences and published widely around these topics. Publications include three books-New Directions in Social Work Practice (2008), Social Pedagogy in the UK: Theory and Practice (2013) and New Directions in Social Work Practice (2nd ed., 2015).