杰基·牛顿（Jackie Newton）的客座帖子。
Jackie identifies as a feminist and a socialist. In this post she reflects 上 her 社会工作 practice journey over most of forty years (1978-2018) – in and against the state – with DSW, CYPS, Health at all levels, NGOs – in cities, provincial towns and rural settings.
Looking back, she feels that the radical potential of 社会工作 has been unhorsed by structural barriers set within the 政治 and economics of liberal 资本主义. This post questions what might have been and asks us to honestly consider where 社会工作 ers can stand today.
对于社会工作者来说，1980年代是动荡的时刻，与新西兰奥特罗阿的每个人都一样。首先是跳羚之旅-既令人振奋又令人振奋-在组织抵抗压迫方面有很多教训。再有就是工党政府的选举的兴奋于1984年，拥有美好的未来满怀希望！此后，由于本届政府采用了罗杰经济学（Rogernomics）而感到困惑，新西兰奥特阿罗亚（Aotearoa New Zealand）争夺奥运金牌，以实现最严格的新自由主义重组。
How did 社会工作 and 社会工作 ers respond, given our commitment to advocacy for progressive social change? Or, as the International Federation of Social Workers puts it: “Principles of 社会正义, human rights, collective responsibility and respect for diversities are central to 社会工作 .”
显然，只有前进的方向！社会工作者形成了一个网络，该网络通过其多样性而强大，遍及从DSW到医院委员会再到非政府组织的工作场所。每个人都有贡献，其中包括新自由主义改革如何对其客户产生负面影响的信息。社会工作者不仅搜集有关此方面的信息，还让服务使用者参与进来，以便每天在部长办公室听到他们的声音。
S社会工作者利用他们的理论和实践知识来挑战右翼经济学背后的基本假设。他们是在国家媒体在政府令人信服的言论面前before之以鼻的时候传达信息的。社会工作者活跃于他们的工会和社区中，将两者联系在一起，形成了一个强大的声音，拒绝被沉默。
They used all the lessons from the Tour, the anti-racism movement and their own ingenuity to promote a different progressive vision for the future. The great spin-off was that, quite naturally, 社会工作 moved from mostly individual case work to more of an emphasis 上 conscientization; working with groups of people in the same situation, learning from them, engaging in the development of 弗莱雷安实践.
Sure, there were some 社会工作 ers that wanted to go down a different route, making 社会工作 more of a 职业. It was not the time or place for this, and, frankly, there was considerable doubt about the benefit of putting effort into something that ran the risk of distancing 社会工作 ers from the 真实 ities of their clients’ lives in so many ways. To be true to itself, 社会工作 needed to concentrate 上 社会正义 and do its bit to resist the 上 slaught of neoliberal economics and the narrow world of exploitative private interest it represents.
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So … of course that line of stars divides a dream from the 真实 ity. Social workers did not collectively organise effective resistance to the 右上方的右旋. Instead, 社会工作 went down the route of turning itself from a job or vocation to a ‘profession’ – with the last step being taken with the amendments to legislation for the Social Work Registration Board in February last year. Social workers celebrated, but was there 真实 ly cause for celebration?
修改法律的主要理由是，要确保客户免受不称职的社会工作者的伤害，并以透明的投诉程序为后盾。然而，大多数社会工作者为大型组织工作–Oranga Tamariki，DHB和非政府组织，如长老会支持–他们已经有自己的内部培训和投诉程序，更不用说招聘程序，这些程序可以保证他们所任命的社工可以安全地工作。
The context for our clients is harm that is rooted in the structural rather than in anything that individual 社会工作 ers do. This goes back to the appalling neglect by Governments over many years of two key factors: the provision of housing and the level of benefits. Have we forgotten that the benefit cuts in 1991 meant that the poorest 25% of households lost around 24 percent of their income, and that benefits have never been restored to their former levels?
Then there are the structural 社会工作 -specific factors, which lead to harm for our clients:
- The chronic under-funding of DSW/CYPS/CYFS/Oranga Tamariki (OT) in its many incarnations which resulted in 社会工作 ers having little room to breathe let alone do thoughtful case work.
- 上届国民政府在启动儿童少年现代化方面的作用&《家庭报告》建议将儿童尽早安置在“稳定而充满爱心的家庭”中。
- The failure of the current Government to anticipate that increasing the wages of 社会工作 ers in OT might impact 上 NGOs, leading to difficulties in doing the work needed to support families to keep 孩子们 safe.
- The current lack of mentoring for new 社会工作 ers to bridge the gap between academic training and front-line 社会工作 .
And let’s also reflect 上 the central contradiction where 社会工作 declares its commitment to the Treaty of Waitangi yet works within 法s and management practices which have racist outcomes, including:
- The Subsequent Children provisions which bypassed the 通常 procedures of the former Children Young Persons and their Families (CYPF) Act 1989 and which affects 毛利人 disproportionately.
- 历届政府未能执行旨在支持毛利人照顾自己的1989年《 CYCY法》的规定，这与约翰·朗基豪（John Rangihau）领导的咨询委员会的《 Puao te Ata Tu》报告直接相关。
Is it any wonder that te Ao 毛利人 is up in arms about the role that 社会工作 ers play in taking 毛利人 孩子们 away from their whanau? And where are the 社会工作 ers that are daily speaking out and lobbying their MPs and the relevant Ministers of the Crown every time legislation and practice like this – through omission or commission – conflicts with 社会工作 ethics?
And do we 真实 ly think that an Annual Practising Certificate and Continuing Professional Development are going to be the finger in the dam holding back the flood of structural issues that make life so dangerous for our clients right now?
Yes, of course there are 社会工作 ers that work hard for 社会正义 and manage to incorporate social action into their daily working lives. But most of us muddle through; heads down, obeying the rules, maybe feeding our concerns up to the likes of 安扎斯, but essentially making a living and hoping that nothing goes too drastically wrong 上 our watch. We do this because we can.
How many job descriptions put social action as central to what we do as 社会工作 ers, and measure this? How many employers would welcome 社会工作 ers 真实 ly implementing 社会正义 with their clients? Ask yourself why. Because 社会工作 is a job, dictated by what the employer wants and is willing to pay for. And this trumps 社会工作 aspirations to 社会正义, because the structural always trumps the individual.
If anyone disagrees with this assessment of contemporary 社会工作 , I suggest that they look at the training opportunities in 安扎斯’s regular email. I see training 上 trauma – lots of that, the flavour de jour – and 上 different 辅导 approaches such as little figures, play therapy, family therapy, interactive drawing therapy and so 上 ….
Where is the training 上 how to make social action a priority, without losing your job? Or when ethically to walk off the job? How to make 社会正义 such a priority that legislators would not dare expect 社会工作 ers to implement legislation such as the Subsequent Children clauses of the OT Act? （好的，自从去年起草这个职位以来，就社交行为进行了奇怪的培训，但是与以个人为中心的培训相比没有什么）。
我们本来是一支不可忽视的力量. 我们不是我们本来可以成为的集体–这不是本来可以的国家。
I fear we may have lost that opportunity now that 社会工作 has joined the ranks of 法yers and doctors. It may be that our assumed mantle of social action (if it ever was so central to 社会工作 ) will pass to the likes of family workers for NGOs, whanau-ora navigators and youth workers, and to people taking political action outside 社会工作 . Perhaps it is high time to stop pretending and take social action out of the definition of 社会工作 .
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我同意杰基’关于与资助者的紧密联系的评论。我也同意，我们需要ANZASW大力挑战上届政府继承并由本届政府欣然接受的社会工作的筹资模式。我相信社会工作者应该呼吁废除弱势儿童’s法，拆除儿童’的团队以及对“儿童少年与家庭”（Child Youth and Family）所做的更改（我将其称为Oranga Tamariki）。我最近在一家拥有个案工作数据库的非政府组织工作– trauma informed –看起来与CYRUS（儿童青少年和家庭的数据库）非常相似。社会工作者需要输入/填写有关whauau /客户的信息已经详尽，似乎陷入了一个大漏洞–没有向一线社工提供反馈，也没有为社工提供收集数据的理由。在我看来，它可以在链的某个地方与上届政府建立联系。’有关收集有关数据的议程“top”家庭及其感知的赤字和成本“taxpayer”这些赤字。我们需要ANZASW来帮助我们集体组织起来，拒绝这种工作方式，并要求资助者也这样做。
起亚奥拉-我支持前两位作家的出色表现，他在我们的/ your / hapu / community社会工作中重新诠释了意义。
对于这些动作，开始对结构性失明进行必要的识别（并重新解决），‘capture’ 社会正义 therefore the balance of science and art of 社会工作
起亚ora Jackie
感谢您提出的令人鼓舞的评论和分析，以及您的经验分享，这与我40年来的许多经历相呼应。
The SWRB is a tool of the State to ensure 社会工作 ers comply with the many pieces of legislation such as the Privacy Act and the Vulnerable Children’不以社会正义和社会变革为根本依据的法案。为客户/哈瑙人执业证明书和投诉书宣告程序对我们与之合作的哈努酒业没有任何意义。
Kia ora Adrienne: thank you for your comments. I believe that safe practice by 社会工作 ers comes from excellent initial training, supportive mentoring when first practising, employers who are committed to 上 going training, and access to both internal and external supervision. Then as 社会工作 ers we can truly use reflective practice and be inspired to be the best we can be. Nga mihi Jackie
太棒了…。即使在这个片段中，您也敢于深深地说出来“The context for our clients is harm that is rooted in the structural rather than in anything that individual 社会工作 ers do. This goes back to the appalling neglect by Governments over many years of two key factors: the provision of housing and the level of benefits”.
感谢您记住生活在贫困中的痛苦，被认可的孤立感（鼓励社区举报‘福利欺诈）的经历，在我当时居住在DPB时，这些经历常常随着时间的推移而变得零散；我记得自己选择了速溶咖啡，每天为孩子们吃糙米和花生酱
我赞赏您在权衡个人的努力方面所确定的结构性问题，但我一直坚信个人改变世界的力量（他们是仅有的人）。我想到许多开始使用万维网的人，谷歌，HART，抗越战争抗议，抗击贫困的彦井，Kohanga Reo，妇女’的避难所，强奸危机和5家基于Wananga教育的提供者‘usual’在我们今天的社区中。
As a 社会工作 er and community member my active local branch and roopu has remain an immense source of 功率 for individuals, relationships and social change; This is where we work to decolonize 社会正义 社会工作 and social change.
嗨，美林，谢谢您的客气话。不仅鼓励社区举报‘benefit fraud’。多年来，人们对社会工作者也抱有这种期望，并导致了道德困境。可悲的是，并非所有社会工作者都将其视为困境。我同意个人共同努力改变世界–但是您的所有示例都不在社会工作之列。很高兴您的本地分支机构和roopu活跃，但是我不知道’认为这反映在全国各地。我的印象是分支活动已大大减少了。展望未来，我希望社会工作者能利用选举年带来的机会：帮助所有（希望的）客户登记参加投票，并将个人和政治人物与客户个人和团体联系起来。和唐’不要为关于什么是社会工作和实践范围的讨论而分心！
我完全同意您的答复，杰基-谢谢。忍受我的回应…
我发现在我的评论中，我使用的是一种持久的，较旧的概念，即意义关系的恢复（这是对我的‘social work’) , 上 e embedded with social response, responsibility, movement , social action; I did not clarifying the personal cultural meaning as a responsibility, response within a village of meaning, rather than a title-noun belonging entirely to a 职业 (in fact I am suspicious of the latter).
那么在我的例子中，社会行为就形成了有福的骚动是合理的（我指的是斯蒂芬·霍肯’的工作，2007年）。那‘socially just’社会工作必须以当地人为基础并由当地人和剥夺者来进行，而不是…..这是我们互相支持，不被社会工作秩序分散注意力的技能。‘profession’对于那些仍然是我们寻求参与当前名为‘scope of practice’SWRB和ANZASW进行的对话。用文字纠正人们，群体，社区，文化的屈服的工作是无价的。正如美国诗人所写”如果您不相信我是真实的，我该如何告诉您我是谁？”Bakara
您的技能和书面工作对于引起当地的声音和在社会工作中的国际土著声音中发挥着不可估量的作用。我想在您的同意下进一步分享您的文章。这对你满意吗？
是的，Merrill，如果您认为这篇文章会鼓励对其中的观点进行辩论，那么欢迎您分享此文章。
Tautoko杰基。一个很棒的博客！我们可以分享吗？
I’m glad that you enjoyed it, Karen. Yes, feel free to share it. My original conclusion was slightly more pessimistic than the published 上 e, but then I was writing with the weight of over 30 years of frustration behind me. If this blog can contribute to a sharper analysis of 社会工作 vis a vis social action then I am happy for it to be shared.
阿门那姐姐！
我希望西南’s can rise in the very near future to fight for the huge injustice that is 上 our own doorstep and that is the massive gap in salary between the government/dhb sector and the NGO sector.No matter who you work for -this should be a collective rise up and cause for all of us.For too long our NGO leadership have accepted contracts that have payed peanuts and resulted in their workforce being labeled and treated as the poor cousin in the 职业-we alongside our employers need to make a stand and say…”为了完成这项工作，我们是否需要肯定地向合格的，经验丰富的员工支付与我们同行相同的薪水？”我们不能也不应再被视为第二流。
If anyone reading this believes it is ok for a recent grad at OT to earn 20-30 K more a year than a experienced,qualified SW with leadership responsibilities(NGO)then please dont respond-however if you believe this 真实 ity is not ok-please make some noise and be in touch as there is movement happening and collectively lets see if we can rise up for a cause worth standing for!
谢谢杰基的真实。
Thanks, 菲利普! I have long believed that 工会 need to put their energy into organising the NGO sector. There are many barriers, including fear from 社会工作 ers, unease from employers, and even a lack of awareness by 社会工作 ers about the importance of the union struggle. I hope you are right about there being movement happening –我很高兴从两个非政府组织的工作中汲取经验。
嗨杰基
We have the opportunity to do a video piece (professionally done)through Social Link around the 最佳ic of inequality of salary and the lack of ‘real’ contracts to back this up in the NGO sector.There is a need for more voices and so far the silence has been deafening,which is of a 真实 concern.Would you or others reading this be willing to place their voice /face before the camera to speak to this huge injustice that has been allowed to be carried out for many,many years.(This ,if they choose-can also be done with anonymity. I look forward to hearing from you(and others,hopefully)soon.
许多问候
菲尔
I’我需要一些时间来整理我的想法，所以录像不会’t work for me. I’我非常高兴通过电子邮件或电话讨论想法。
有用的思考和分析。我建议一个‘both / and’方法很有价值。关键结构分析和重点个人实践– aren’对抗力量。一世’米在非政府组织中扮演领导角色。我们致力于社会正义，我希望社会工作者在他们的所有工作中都拥有这样的视角。挑战/挑战制度压力并为个人和家庭创造机会，让他们过上更好的生活，这是我们需要/帮助实现的。
It’s good to hear your positive outlook, David, and that your NGO uses a 社会正义 lens in your work. My worry is that the tight ties to the funder put limits 上 NGOs to 真实 ly challenge the system –但是也许您比大多数NGO拥有更多的自由。我知道我受到诸如以下方面的约束”与其他社会服务机构保持良好关系的重要性” or “保持在政府和地方电力经纪人所能接受的范围内”.
感谢您发表这篇非常重要且反思性的文章。新自由主义持续不断的个人关注和合同服务模式无疑已经影响了我们作为社会工作者的能力，如何回应我们试图支持的人们及其更广泛的社区。
我曾希望自从SWRB现在可以处理能力问题后，ANZASW才能真正成为我们的代表协会。
在最近的过去，每次都有法律法规/司法问题Greg O’警察协会的康纳在广播电视上发表了自己的见解。媒体认为他的观点是有效和重要的，他们将他排除在外。我们非常需要ANZASW这样的声音。必须听取他们的意见，谈论提里提奥·怀唐伊（Tiriti O Waitangi）的不公正行为，福利率下降，心理健康的生物医学模型，住房危机，我们的贴心服务私有化以及帮派在我们不满的人群中扮演的角色。
关于创伤重点，我同意这是当下的风尚，但坚决支持社会工作者将他们的系统性和社会正义性重点用于此类工作。我们了解殖民化对代际造成的创伤影响，因此需要摆在这项重要工作的桌上。否则，我们当前的精神卫生服务的生物医学缺陷模型将占上风，并责备受害者并试图单独改变他们。
再次感谢您的重要职务，也感谢您重新构想社会工作对我们作为社会工作者的每一个人的持续挑战。
谢谢你的鼓励，安妮。我同意您所说的关于ANZASW的观点，并希望它能做更多的一般性宣传工作。希望看到本地分支机构也这样做。
听见