Introduction
Preparing for Social Work
Anti-Oppressive Practice
Principles and Consequences
Being Accountable
Managing Risk
Advocacy and Social Work Organisations
The Ethics of Partnership Working
Ethics in Social Work Organisations

This timely and clear introduction to values and ethics in social work practice places an emphasis on advocacy and empowerment, and how the beginning social worker can start to apply these concepts. This will, in turn, help social work students develop their understanding by showing them how ethics can have positive impacts on the lives of vulnerable people.

Lester Parrott is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Keele University where he teaches and publishes in the area of social policy and social work. He is the author of "Social Work and Social Care", a textbook on the relevance and relationship of social policy to social workers.