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Professor Sarah Banks' Outputs (108)

Negotiating personal engagement and professional accountability: professional wisdom and ethics work (2013)
Journal Article
Banks, S. (2013). Negotiating personal engagement and professional accountability: professional wisdom and ethics work. European Journal of Social Work, 16(5), 587-604. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2012.732931

This article examines the relationship between personal engagement and professional accountability in social work—considering whether the increasing focus on professional accountability in the context of the new public management, public austerity an... Read More about Negotiating personal engagement and professional accountability: professional wisdom and ethics work.

Payday lenders are out of time in their fight against credit cap (2013)
Newspaper / Magazine
Banks, S. (2013). Payday lenders are out of time in their fight against credit cap

Pressure is mounting on high cost credit companies to face tighter controls when they hand out short-term loans. Debt advice agencies, consumer organisations, anti-poverty campaigners and a cross-party group of MPs have all joined calls for the Finan... Read More about Payday lenders are out of time in their fight against credit cap.

In whose interest? the dynamics of debt in poor households (2013)
Journal Article
Flaherty, J., & Banks, S. (2013). In whose interest? the dynamics of debt in poor households. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 21(3), 219-232. https://doi.org/10.1332/175982713x13812262277493

This article examines the dynamics of credit and debt in low income households, drawing on an action research project with 24 households in the Teesside area of North East England. Despite crippling interest rates, high-cost credit sources (for examp... Read More about In whose interest? the dynamics of debt in poor households.

Issues of Disclosure and Intrusion: Ethical Challenges for a Community Researcher (2013)
Journal Article
Carter, K., Banks, S., Armstrong, A., Kindon, S., & Burkitt, I. (2013). Issues of Disclosure and Intrusion: Ethical Challenges for a Community Researcher. Ethics and Social Welfare, 7(1), 92-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496535.2013.769344

This case study focuses on some of the ethical issues that arise in community-based participatory research, drawing on an example from practice in the UK. It comprises a case example written by a community researcher, followed by two commentaries, wh... Read More about Issues of Disclosure and Intrusion: Ethical Challenges for a Community Researcher.

Everyday ethics in community-based participatory research (2013)
Journal Article
Banks, S., Armstrong, A., Carter, K., Graham, H., Hayward, P., Henry, A., …Strachan, A. (2013). Everyday ethics in community-based participatory research. Contemporary Social Science, 8(3), 263-277. https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2013.769618

This article explores a range of ethical issues that arise in community-based participatory research (CBPR), drawing on literature and examples from practice. The experience of CBPR practitioners adds further weight to the growing critique by many ot... Read More about Everyday ethics in community-based participatory research.

Ethics and Values in Social Work (2012)
Book
Banks, S. (2012). Ethics and Values in Social Work. (4th edition). Palgrave Macmillan

Ethics and Values in Social Work offers a clear and systematic account of professional ethics in relation to social work practice, framed within a global context. Having sold over 38,000 copies across its lifetime, this is a thoroughly revised editio... Read More about Ethics and Values in Social Work.

Global ethics for social work? A case-based approach (2011)
Book Chapter
Banks, S. (2012). Global ethics for social work? A case-based approach. In S. Banks, & K. Nøhr (Eds.), Practising social work ethics around the world : cases and commentaries (1-31). London: Routledge

'Ethics in an age of austerity: Social work and the evolving New Public Management (2011)
Journal Article
Banks, S. (2011). 'Ethics in an age of austerity: Social work and the evolving New Public Management. Journal of Social Intervention: Theory and Practice, 20(2), 5-23

This article examines the growth of interest in social work ethics in the context of neo-liberal policies and the growth of managerialism in public service professions. Taking the United Kingdom as an example, while drawing links with trends across E... Read More about 'Ethics in an age of austerity: Social work and the evolving New Public Management.

Re-gilding the ghetto: community work and community development in 21st-century Britain (2011)
Book Chapter
Banks, S. (2011). Re-gilding the ghetto: community work and community development in 21st-century Britain. In M. Lavalette (Ed.), Radical social work today : social work at the crossroads (165-185). Bristol: Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781847428189.003.0011

The theory and practice of community work is bedevilled by debates around terminology, identity and ideology – just as much as, if not more than, social work. The term ‘community’ (noun), whilst often dismissed as meaningless, nevertheless has much m... Read More about Re-gilding the ghetto: community work and community development in 21st-century Britain.

Interprofessional Ethics: A Developing Field? Notes from the Ethics & Social Welfare Conference (2010)
Journal Article
Banks, S. (2010). Interprofessional Ethics: A Developing Field? Notes from the Ethics & Social Welfare Conference. Ethics and Social Welfare, 4(3), 280-294. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496535.2010.516116

This article discusses the nature of interprofessional ethics and some of the ethical issues and challenges that arise when practitioners from different professions work closely together in the fields of health and social care. The article draws on m... Read More about Interprofessional Ethics: A Developing Field? Notes from the Ethics & Social Welfare Conference.

Integrity in professional life: issues of conduct, commitment and capacity (2010)
Journal Article
Banks, S. (2010). Integrity in professional life: issues of conduct, commitment and capacity. The British Journal of Social Work, 40(7), 2168-2184. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcp152

This article explores the nature of professional integrity, considering the questions ‘what is professional integrity?’ and ‘how do social welfare practitioners perform as people of integrity in the course of their professional work?’ The focus is on... Read More about Integrity in professional life: issues of conduct, commitment and capacity.

Ethical Issues in Youth Work (2010)
Book
Banks, S. (Ed.). (2010). Ethical Issues in Youth Work. Routledge

An edited collection of chapters on ethical issues in working with young people - including confidentiality, faith-based work, work with black young people, practitioner research, youth workers as controllers.

From Professional Ethics to Ethics in Professional Life: Reflections on Learning and Teaching in Social Work (2010)
Book Chapter
Banks, S. (2010). From Professional Ethics to Ethics in Professional Life: Reflections on Learning and Teaching in Social Work. In D. Zavirsek, B. Rommelspacher, & S. Staub-Bernasconi (Eds.), Ethical dilemmas in social work : international perspectives (119-132). Ljubljana: Faculty of Social Work, University of Ljubljana

This chapter offers some reflections on features of the traditional professional ethics literature used for teaching in the English-speaking world, which tends to focus on codes, conduct and rational decision making in difficult cases. It is argued t... Read More about From Professional Ethics to Ethics in Professional Life: Reflections on Learning and Teaching in Social Work.