The Promotion of Avoidable Ignorance in the British Journal of Social Work (Gambrill, 2018): A Very Short Reply

This reply from the Editors of the British Journal of Social Work to a recently published invited article in Research on Social Work Practice (a substantially similar version of which had been previously rejected by the BJSW), affirms the importance and timeliness of rigorous debate within social work about science and evidence-based practice but summarises the BJSW reviewers reasons for rejecting the article submitted to the BJSW. The reply concludes by calling for wider contributions to this debate