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The penultimate chapter largely brings the history of the personal social services and social work in England up to the present time. The past 10 years of Conservative-led governments have seen a drastic reduction in funding for public services and a major drive to take services outside of the public sector and into a commercialised and privatised market place. This chapter notes how an overwhelming focus on rationing and risk has skewed the personal social services and social work within a context of increasing political intentions to control and curtail services and those who work within the services at a time of increasing deprivation and need amid shrinking resources.
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It was particularly noteworthy that Boris Johnson as prime minister in 2019 appointed Sajid Javid as chancellor of the exchequer. Johnson was challenged about the appointment as it is alleged that as a senior investment banker with Deutsche Bank Javid had a key role in selling collateralised debt obligations (CDOs), one of the products central in creating the 2008 banking crash. He was now leading on the continuing cuts in public services and social security benefits.
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Sir Martin Narey, Isabelle Trowler and Sir Alan Wood were also each supportive of the government’s intention to open up statutory children’s social services to the private sector (see Jones, R. (2019) In Whose Interest? The Privatisation of Child Protection and Social Work, Bristol, Policy Press, chapter three).
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Jones, R. (2020). Coalition and Conservatives: Austerity and Hostility (2010–2020). In: A History of the Personal Social Services in England. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46123-2_12
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