Abstract
The penultimate chapter largely brings the history of the personal social services and social work in England up to the present time. The past 10 years of Conservative-led governments have seen a drastic reduction in funding for public services and a major drive to take services outside of the public sector and into a commercialised and privatised market place. This chapter notes how an overwhelming focus on rationing and risk has skewed the personal social services and social work within a context of increasing political intentions to control and curtail services and those who work within the services at a time of increasing deprivation and need amid shrinking resources.
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