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date: 09 February 2025

partnership (with service users) 

Source:
A Dictionary of Social Work and Social Care
Author(s):

John Harris,

Vicky White

The trend towards *service user *participation derives from legislation and policy, professional responsibilities and values, and the demands and actions of service users themselves. Working in partnership with service users goes further than service user participation, and implies a levelling out of the balance of power between the partners. The feasibility of this needs to be questioned. Social workers, as (most often) agents of the state, are invested with massive amounts of power compared with users of social work services, who are likely to be drawn from ... ...

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