In this assignment I will be exploring ways in which changing laws, policies and economical ideologies impact Cost of youth sports  on social work practice and service users. The tension this creates between public servants, service users, local authorities and government. I will be focusing on the effectiveness of child protection intervention, safeguarding and assessment between in the UK and comparing it with Sweden. The British Welfare State in 1948 was influenced by a number of policies and serious case reviews. The Beveridge Report identified ‘five evils’ which were affecting the current welfare state: want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness (Jones and Lowe, 2002). In 1945, Dennis O’Neil was a child in care who experienced abuse resulting in his death. An inquiry was undertaken known as the Curtis Committee Report (1946 cited in Winter, 2011, p11), This focused on the contribution towards the child’s Cost of youth sports  death. The Curtis Committee Report (1946) found a large number of professionals who were working with children did not have specialised practice training. The report found that due to lack of training children were not placed into appropriate care, therefore neglecting their needs. Younghusband (1947 cited in Bamford, 2015, p.21) recognised that social work practice had limited trained staff on the frontline, the report proposed a course, where core subjects of social work principles and practice should be taught, with the option of specialisation. There was also failing in which people representing the local authority had no relationship with the children, it recommended that those who work with the children from the local authority should be more like friends and support children up to the age of 16, Curtis Committee (1946:147, p.445 cited in Winter, 2011, p.11). This criticism of social services alongside the report instigated The Children Act 1948 (Parrott, 2003).The government’s response to this was to introduce Social Security, National Health Service, Social Services, Housing, Education and Employment (Jones and Lowe, 2002). They believed that a service should be provided free at the point of delivery, aiming to provide all citizens with an equal minimum standard of care. This was a collectivist approach to managing the welfa Cost of youth sports re state of the country at the time. A collective perspective views that social problems reflect the socioeconomic state of the country and believing that wealth should be distributed to reduce inequalities and to support people (Davies, 2004). This would be financially supported by the introduction of taxation on people that worked called National Insurance. Cost of youth sports Through providing this service the government was a demonstration to the public that it was taking responsibility for maintain a minimum standard of care (Turbett et al., 2014). Subsequently, these reports were the driving factor for The Children Act 1948, the>