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The social work professional project has largely consisted of efforts to adopt the strategies of the established professions, and articulate the possession of various traits or attributes said to characterize such professions (Greenwood, 1957). Jones (2000) has called it the aspirant model of professionalism, in that it is aspiring to the status of the more established professions such as medicine and law. Taking this view, it could be argued that the social work professional project has been quite successful in that it has gained the conventional trappings of a profession.
A new and individualized approach to welfare policy and service delivery has emerged where the primary responsibility for managing social and economic risks facing individuals and families is devolved from the bureaucratic-professional state to the individual and his or her social work or welfare worker, often working in non-state organizational locations. As a consequence of this devolution, the outcome of policies are now dependent, more than ever before, on how they are implemented by those responsible for working with service users.
Nevertheless, he does suggest that the European welfare states are on a new trajectory, or rather trajectories, as different welfare states respond idiosyncratically to the pressure for change. Both Kuhnle and Taylor-Gooby argue that the primary tenor of change has been one of adaptation as opposed to destabilization. Yet certain common themes are apparent: a shift to labor market activation policies in income support (in which benefits are conditional on some sort of ‘activity’), to greater competition in the production and delivery of personal social services, cost containment and greater efficiencies.
