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AFTER THE UPRISINGS : SOCIAL WORK ON BROADWATER FARM

01 January 1991

AFTER THE UPRISINGS : SOCIAL WORK ON BROADWATER FARM
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JOURNAL ARTICLE , User Ref = 009833 , Acc Date = 01-Nov-86
M Hutchinson-Reis
Critical Social Policy, Autumn 1986 (17) pp70-79

Describes the events on the Broadwater Farm Estate as an uprising
against intolerable injustice and oppression and looks at the
involvement of the local team of social workers in picking up the
pieces . Immediate problems included visiting isolated and
vulnerable clients and families particularly affected by the
fighting, providing financial help for those whose social
security benefits were delayed by the ban on postal deliveries,
and distributing food to people affected by the absence of
transport and shopping facilities on the estate. Also looks at
the effects of the riot, and the subsequent police occupation,
on local residents and at the role of social workers in advising
and supporting those arrested. Concludes that the events of
October 1985 forced local social workers, particularly those from
the black communities, to recognise the political implications
of their role and the potential conflict between
`professionalism' and practice in a situation of blatant
injustice and oppression.

United Kingdom, London, ethnic minority, public disorder

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