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This informative and incisively written edited collection brings together experts from around the world to discuss issues which the social work and social welfare sectors face every day and to ensure a closer link between evidence-based practice, policy objectives and social development goals. Furthermore, this book reveals how these may affect the conditions of people and demonstrate how the social work and social development community can contribute to sustainable development.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- PART I: LISTENING TO MESSAGES FROM THE FIRST LINE -- 1 Child Welfare on the Eve of the Twenty First Century: What we have Learned -- 2 The Changing Face of Child Welfare: Perspectives from the Field -- 3 Efforts at Empowering Youth: Youth-in-Care and the Youth-in-Care Networks in Ontario and Canada -- PART II: BUILDING FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SUPPORTS -- 4 The Focus on Family when Children are at Risk: Swedish Policy in Practice -- 5 The "Wraparound" Process: Strength-Based Practice -- 6 From Case and Client to Citizen: An Innovation in Child Welfare Practice -- PART III: CHILDREN ON THE MOVE -- 7 Unaccompanied and Asylum-Seeking Children Encounter Sweden -- 8 Offering Relief to Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers in Holland -- PART IV: VALUING DIVERSITY IN CHILD WELFARE COMMUNITIES -- 9 Tackling Racism in Everyday Realities: A Task for Social Workers -- 10 A First Nations Experience in First Nations Child Welfare Services -- 11 It Takes a Village: Building Networks of Support for African Nova Scotian Families and Children -- PART V: VALUING THE FIELD IN SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION -- 12 Developing Partnerships in Social Work Education in Britain -- PART VI: CONCLUSION -- 13 Valuing the Field: Lessons from Innovation -- Bibliography -- Index.