Issue 7 is launched!

We can offer you and all other interested colleagues all over the world again outstanding articles, research notes, a social report, an essay, an historical portrait, country reports, book reviews and relevant information about international conferences.

As you know, you can find all the papers and information on www.socwork.net. We would appreciate, if you would spread that information in your network, too.

International outstanding colleagues raise in their SW&S-Articles the internationally very relevant and currently controversial discussed topics on

- the Price of Social and Health Care (Sue Penna & Martin O'Brien),

- Evidence Based Social Care (Ian J. Dore),

- the Current Transformations in Welfare Regimes regarding to the Developments of Social Work in France (John Ward) and

- the Possibilities to use the Capability Approach in Educational and Social Work Research (Hans-Uwe Otto & Holger Ziegler).

In Issue 7 we close as well our Series on New Professionalism in Social Work (nine articles) and follow on the Series on European Transition with a Paper on >>New Regime of Governing Childhood? Finland as Example<< (Timo Harrikari & Mirja Satka).

The situation of Social Work & Social Policy in transformation countries is again a main focus of SW&S. Therefore four papers (Debate, Research Note and the Country Notes) focus on the Eastern European situation: Gedas Malinauskas (Lithuania); Siyka Kovacheva (Bulgaria), Elena Pecaric (Slovenia) and Oldrich Chytil (Czech Republic).

SOCIAL WORK & SOCIETY will be re-organized in 2007. SW&S will be parted in two pillars from March on.

The first one will be the Journal as you know it in a focussed version (Articles, Book Reviews, Research Reports and Notes, Series and Special Issues). Beside the Journal we will launch a new SW&S-Magazine (www.socmag.net), which will offer papers, comments, discussions and information for more professional interests (Social Reports, Conference Reports, Debate, Notes and News).

Just have a look, click and see: Issue 7 of our SW&S-Journal (www.socwork.net) and from March 2007 on the SW&S-Magazine (www.socmag.net)!

Sincerly yours,

Hans-Uwe Otto & Fabian Kessl,

Co-Ordinating Office SW&S