Editorial: British Journal of Social Work 39(8)

When we took over on 1 July 2004 from our predecessors, Ian Butler and Mark Drakeford, 2010 seemed a long way off. However, all of a sudden it seems, we now find ourselves entering the final few months of our term of office as co-editors. We depart as of 30 June 2010, passing the Journal editorship over to our successors, wishing them well and hoping that they enjoy being the co-editors of this prestigious Journal as much as we have done. So, given that this is our last but one editorial, we thought we would take this opportunity to reflect briefly on how the Journal has developed since 2004, outline the plans for celebrating forty years of the Journal's existence in 2010 and record various thanks, as well as introducing the articles making up this issue