which endorsed working with families and recognising social work as a professionally (Pierson, 2012). However Butler and Hickman,( 2011) argues that this legislation simply implies preservation and prevention work with families. Each local authority then created a children officer in charge of managing the public child care and social work with children. Previous to The Children Act 1948 was The Poor Law (1834 cited in Dean, 2013, p171), which had limited regulations with regards to children and the responsibility the state had towards minors. Currently parental responsibility is shared between the parents and local authority under section 33(4) Children Act 1989, but the local authority may only exercise its power when safeguardi How culture affects the lifestyle choices g or promoting the child’s welfare (Brayne, Carr and Goosey, 2015). In the youth of social work there was growing concerns about the overlapping or gaps in social work (Rogowski, 2010). The release of the Seebohm Report (1968) stated that social work practice had become ‘symptom centred’ and proposed that social work departments come together practicing ‘family centred’ approach (Community Care, 2005). This approach contributed towards a generation of gene How culture affects the lifestyle choices ral social workers who practiced in certain areas or ‘patches’ (Sayer, 2008). This meant that the social workers would work with the whole family and work with a wide range of human complexities (Higham, 2006). Parker, (2015) suggests the reorganisation of  How culture affects the lifestyle choices social service was implemented to try and save money. The image of generic social work departments and practice would have it weaknesses exposed by up to 30 child deaths by the non-specialised approach adopted by local authorities (Community Care, 2005). This shift in social work practice did not last for long as the How culture affects the lifestyle choices  Social Services Act 1970 introduced individualised departments for adults, children and older people, (Dickens, 2010)>