SOCIAL EN GRAN BRETAÑA: INDEPENDENCIA Y

This paper describes the significant changes taking place in social work education and training in the UK. The development of service standards, professional registers and codes of conduct, together with the increasing levels of regulation and prescription of social work education and training, all aimed at improving service standards, are also diminishing the independence of educational providers. These changes are creating powerful regulatory mechanisms which may be used to discipline not only erroneous and poor practice, but also to quash or inhibit unorthodox and dissenting practitioners. This paper shows how the moves towards evidence based practice are part of a wider political project to regulate professional conduct. RESUMEN Este artículo describe los cambios que se están observando en los programas de educación para el trabajo social en Gran Bretaña. Los estándares más altos, el desarrollo de códigos de conducta y el aumento de regulación y prescripción en los programas de educación para el trabajo social, todos se enfocan a la mejora de servicios; sin embargo, tienen tambié