Using the Law in Social Work

Name: Using the Law in Social Work
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ISBN: 9781036209452

Robert Johns, Jacqueline Harry

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SAGE Publications Ltd
26 December 2025

Social work; Law as it applies to other professions

Series: Transforming Social Work Practice Series

A core function of social work is to assist, empower, and protect the most vulnerable in society, requiring social workers to often make decisions in complex and challenging situations. This book helps social workers understand their statutory duties, keep up to date with relevant law, legislation and legal processes and learn how to apply this knowledge to social work practice. Using jargon-free language, it provides a grounding in legally appropriate, rights-based social work across services for children and families and child protection, adult care law, youth justice, court work, professional regulation and human rights.

By: Robert Johns, Jacqueline Harry
Imprint: SAGE Publications Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 10th Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 171mm,
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781036209452
ISBN 10: 1036209458
Series: Transforming Social Work Practice Series
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 26 December 2025
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1: But I want to be a social worker, not a lawyer Chapter 2: Human rights Chapter 3: Children’s rights and needs Chapter 4: Meeting children’s needs when things go wrong Chapter 5: Adult social care Chapter 6: Adults with additional support needs Chapter 7: Youth justice Chapter 8: Ending up in court Chapter 9: Providing a quality service

Before moving into social work education, Robert Johns worked for a number of years in a range of social work roles, predominantly in the public sector. His specialisms were youth justice and court-work, representing the interests of children involved in care proceedings. Academically, his major abiding interest has been social work law but he has also taught social policy and social work values and ethics, hence his latest book, Ethics and Law for Social Workers. Currently, he teaches at the University of East London, where has been Head of Social Work and programme leader for the qualifying MA offered in conjunction with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. He is the author of Using the Law in Social Work, now in its sixth edition, Social Work, Social Policy and Older People and, most recently, Capacity and Autonomy.