We write this Editorial having just watched the England football team win a crucial match in their progress through the 2018 World Cup. Over and above what was (at times) an unremarkable game, we were reminded again of the power of community—the teams, supporters in the crowd, groups of people over the world choosing to crane their necks at a screen in a bar or gathering together with friends and family at home, camaraderie and shared purpose making of the experience so much more than if viewed alone. How is that a whole country up to the World Cup had placed low expectations on the team and yet, as soon as the first match was won, the country is full of boundless optimism that England will do well and that ‘football is coming home’ optimism that is not based on any recent evidence! In social work, we make frequent reference to social and community support and resources, even care in the community, and continue to proclaim the psycho-social model—understanding the individual and family in their social and community context—and the social construction of problems as being our starting point in all intervention. Yet the age-old debate about how such understandings are carried through into practice is built around individual problem-focused referral and assessment and workloads made up of individual cases subscribing to a model of person-centred practice, with ‘personalisation’ being a policy mandate, persists.
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