ABSTRACT
In this, and the following chapter we will consider the application of the model which is presented by the next generation of the template. We will also demonstrate the need for practitioners to consider more seriously the tensions and contradictions which are emerging in the employment of community workers today. The reasons for this are partly historical and partly bound up in the outlook of workers and academics. Most recently, an imbalance has arisen due to the preponderance of concern with 'ends and means' issues, at the expense of the underlying concepts and framework. Values have become confused as the rhetoric changed over the years, and each tack successively bound workers into new orthodoxies, none of which brought much stability to the profession. These have usually been highly selective aspects of political fashion, expediency or opportunism. Our model will assist us to clarify many of these questions.
