History as a Resource for the Future: A Response to ‘Best of times, worst of times: Social work and its moment’

This article provides a response to the recent paper in this Journal by Ray Jones entitled ‘The best of times, the worst of times: Social work and it's moment’. Jones' paper is welcomed for its use of history to inform the current debates about expertise and identity. The objective of this response is to address a perceived gap in Jones' paper with regard to the insufficient and over-simplified approach to the purpose of social work as a dual...