Abstract
Reference was made in the ‘Introduction’ to the extent to which social work in particular is a product of the society within which it functions and is affected by both the nature of the problems occurring within that society and the attitudes governing the response to these problems. A brief look at some of the recent legislative and other social provisions and their effects on social-work services will therefore be taken to underline this point.
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Butrym, Z.T. (1976). Social Work and Society. In: The Nature of Social Work. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15685-6_6
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