Social work in a devolved Wales

I was trained as a social worker in Wales in the early 1960s in a period of great uncertainty and change. The Barclay Report (Barclay, 1982) on the roles and tasks of social workers pointed to a radical reshuffle of local authority social services departments and their relationship to the communities they served, a locality model which although rejected may have been eminently suited to the realities of rural social work we were experiencing in practice.