ABSTRACT
The case for evaluating in practice is a case for work that permeates every aspect of practice. The process framework of this and the following chapters is intended to make this very point. Not that a simple linear process of assessing, planning, intervening and reviewing is all that matters. Even when social work seems, either to service user or practitioner, to fall into discrete phases, these will overlap, lack order and sequence, and include iterative elements. an elderly persons home, an emergency duty team, a refuge for women, or a mental health team will each identify and weight phases differently, or may not recognise them at all.
